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...feel that there's a lot of medical waste that's not being handled," said Rep. Steven Angelo (D-Saugus), chair of the House Natural Resources Committee. Angelo introduced a bill concerning the medical waste problem in late 1986 and will offer another draft of his proposal to the committee next week...
...Fred E. Berry (D-Peabody) is sponsoring another bill in the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Agriculture that would redefine medical waste as hazardous waste, extending existing regulations to cover medical waste...
State House officials said Berry's bill would be the easiest way to implement stricter regulations on medical waste disposal...
...Most people say, `We've got to set up a new department, new regulations, a new bureaucracy,'" said T.J. Andre '85, an aide to Senator Berry. "Berry's bill is a way to avoid creating a new bureaucracy, and with the fiscal state, it'll avoid a duplication of effort...
Observers, however, said that the bill wouldnot be passed because citizens would object tohaving incinerators burning "hazardous waste"instead of "medical waste" in their communities...