---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 6992h"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "6992h"
heading: "Health impacts report"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/6992h"
units:
  - "Chapter 82 — Solid Waste Disposal"
  - "Subchapter X — Demonstration Medical Waste Tracking Program"
---

# §6992h. Health impacts report


Within 24 months after November 1, 1988, the [Administrator](/usc/42/6903.md?p=1) of the [Agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry shall prepare for Congress a report on the health effects of [medical waste](/usc/42/6903.md?p=40), including each of the following—

- (1) A description of the potential for infection or injury from the segregation, handling, [storage](/usc/42/6903.md?p=33), [treatment](/usc/42/6903.md?p=34), or [disposal](/usc/42/6903.md?p=3) of [medical wastes](/usc/42/6903.md?p=40).
- (2) An estimate of the number of people injured or infected annually by sharps, and the nature and seriousness of those injuries or infections.
- (3) An estimate of the number of people infected annually by other means related to waste segregation, handling, [storage](/usc/42/6903.md?p=33), [treatment](/usc/42/6903.md?p=34), or [disposal](/usc/42/6903.md?p=3), and the nature and seriousness of those infections.
- (4) For diseases possibly spread by [medical waste](/usc/42/6903.md?p=40), including Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and hepatitis B, an estimate of what percentage of the total number of cases nationally may be traceable to [medical wastes](/usc/42/6903.md?p=40).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–272, title II, § 11008, formerly § 11009, as added Pub. L. 100–582, § 2(a), Nov. 1, 1988, 102 Stat. 2957; renumbered § 11008, Pub. L. 105–362, title V, § 501(h)(1)(B), Nov. 10, 1998, 112 Stat. 3284.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 11008 of Pub. L. 89–272 was classified to section 6992g of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 105–362, § 501(h)(1)(A).