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173.134

Section §173.134: Class 6, Division 6.2-Definitions and exceptions

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Interpretation Responses

Ref ID Date Company Name Individual Name Response Document
25-0063 Transportation Development Group LLC Jim Powell View
25-0044 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Keri Kolb View
24-0049 Clean Harbors Mr. Paul Rheaume View
23-0082 The University of Alabama at Birmingham Justin Roth View
21-0094 Scopelitis, Garvin, Light, Hanson & Feary, P.C. Timothy W. Wiseman View
20-0062 Daniels Training Services, Inc. Daniel Stoehr View
20-0064 MRIGlobal-NCR Malcolm Smith View
21-0002 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Dr. Jeanne Santoli, M.D. View
20-0077 Neoteryx Stuart Kushon View
20-0063 DNA Genotek Austin Udocor View
19-0106 Woodard & Curran, Inc. Kelly V. Camp View
19-0014 Attorney at Law Lawrence W. Bierlein View
19-0032 Locus Biosciences, Inc. Nick Conley View
18-0059 Global First Mr. Thomas Brennan View
18-0071 United States Department of Agriculture Dr. Jack Shere View
17-0076 Vyriad Jon Harrington View
17-0041 WNWN International Mr. Ed Krisiunas View
00-0295 Industry Research and Public Affairs Alice P. Jacobsohn, Esq. View
00-0128 Sure-Way Systems, Inc. Mr. Gary Chilcott View
99-0192 Bio-Safe America, Inc. Ms. Samantha Burdick View
12-0109 Mr. Andrew Heine View
99-0298 Micro-Med Industries, Inc. Mr. Charles N. Hendrix View
11-0023 BioStorage Technologies Ms. Darcy Britt View
05-0182 Daniels Sharpsmart, Inc. Mr. Terry Grimmond View
07-0140 Advanced Chemcial Transports, Inc. Mr. James A. Castrodale, Jr View
14-0060 Safe-T- Pak, Inc. Mr. David Creighton View
06-0098 PTP Consulting, Inc. Ms. Carol Brozosky, CET, CHMM View
14-0080 Discovery Laboratories, Inc Ms. Louise J. Calabretta View
99-0124 Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin Kahn, PLLC Mr. Paul Jackson Rice View
02-0098 CB Healthcare Consulting Caryn M. Bing, Rph, MS, FASHP View
99-0311 Dornoch Medical Systems, Inc. Mr. James L. Dunn View
13-0112 Great Lakes Custom Law Mr. Jason P. Wapieninick View
02-0155 St. John's Health System Stephen A. Kemp View
01-0214 Honeywell Ms. Barbara Konrad View
14-0208 Washington State Department of Health Mr. Chuck Talburt View
10-0188 American Veterinary Medical Association Ms. Kristi Henderson View
99-0037 Allegheny Airlines, Inc Mr. Wayne S. Lester View
03-0113 New York State Department of Health Ellis Jacobs, Ph.D., DABCC View
03-0139 Brink's U.S. Mr. Stan Turbyfill View
99-0106 Inscite Edward Krisiunas, MT(ASCP), CIC, MPH View
16-0019 St. Johns County Utility Department Mr. Tony Cubbedge View
98-0529 Pall Corporation Ms. Susan Morrissey View
12-0247 Curtis Bay Energy Mr. Edward Petrullo View
06-0094 Quest Diagnostics Mr. Nicholas Pagerly  View
02-0129 Patton Boggs, L.L.P. Carolina L.Mederos View
09-0186 Oregon Health and Science University Ms. Debra A. Brickey View
08-0031 UT Southwestern Medical Center Dr. Frank H. Wians, Jr. View
98-0303 Glaxo Wellcome, Inc. Ms. Sally Hamam View
11-0314 BioStorage Technologies Ms. Darcy Britt View
11-0261 Mr. Aaron Hackman View
06-0277 National Solid Wastes Management Association Ms. Alice P. Jacobsohn View
15-0152 DiSorb Systems, Inc Mr. Ted McLaughlin View
09-0065 ACM Global Central Laboratory Ms. Lisa Fotheringham View
16-0028 New York State Department of Health Mr. Corey Bennett View
13-0031 Minigrip Mr. Ben Hellming View
04-0197 Bureau of Radiation Protection, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Mr. David J. Allard, CHP, Director View
12-0243 New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Alan G. Woodard, Ph.D. View
02-0292 U.S. Geological Survey Dr.Stephen R. Moulton View
12-0051 United Parcel Service Mr. Samuel Elkind View
08-0252 Federal Reserve System Cash Product Office Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Los Angeles Branch Mr. Alex Torres View
12-0028 Waste and Compliance Management, Inc. Mr. Eric Smith View
02-0299 Air Techniques Elizabeth Paul View
10-0141 Triumvirate Environmental, Inc. Mr. John Menzigian View
09-0189 The Jackson Laboratory-West Ms. Kristela Ramos View
07-0025 LMC Pathology Services Ms. Jane Swerdlow View
06-0181 Laboratory Medicine Consultants Ms. Jane Swerdlow View
08-0121 Special Waste Disposal, Inc. Mr. John Grindal View
09-0043 Otto Environmental Systems Mr. Rob Ellis View
01-0245 National Toxicology Program Archives Mr. J. Keith Connelly View
07-0094 MTS Medical Waste Management Mr. Edward Petrullo View
01-0121 Tri-State Hospital Supply Corporation Mr. Trent Sisco View
13-0041 Carry and Clean, LLC Mr. H. Michael Lord View
12-0193 HAZ-MAT Transportation Services Mr. Jack Peters View
03-0045 U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine
Entomological Sciences Program 		Ms. Sandra R. Evans View
07-0057 Stericycle, Inc. Ms. Selin Hoboy  View
00-0104 EnviroTech of America, Inc. Mr. Jeffrey A. Paiste View
16-0044 Hall, Render, Killiam, Heath & Lyman, PC Ms. Amy Berenbaum Goodman View
02-0013 SAIC Frederick Cancer Research Joseph P. Kozlovac, M.S., CBSP, RBP View
06-0007 Medical Waste Solutions, Inc. Mr. Russell A. Karlins View
03-0208 FAA Bill Wilkening View
14-0238 Surface Deployment and distribution Command Mr. Marco Boasso View
13-0077 Bellevue Hospital Center Mr. Kieran Toale View
15-0020 South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control Bureau of Laboratories Mr. Brian Gootee View