The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
(Cite as: 10 V.S.A. § 7111)
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§ 7111. Hospital mercury reduction plan
By July 1, 2006, each hospital in Vermont shall submit a mercury reduction plan to
the Agency, consistent with guidance provided by the Agency. The plan will cover all
patient care sites owned or operated by the hospital. The plan shall identify and
quantify mercury use and disposal related to patient care, including equipment and
chemicals to the extent known through mercury content information provided by manufacturers
or maintained by the Agency through labeling plans and notification. The plan will
also set target mercury use reduction goals from the 2002 baseline year and will identify
measures to be taken by the hospital to reduce mercury in patient care settings through
reductions in use of equipment and chemicals containing mercury and through modifications
in the hospital’s purchasing policies and procedures with regard to products containing
mercury. An updated plan shall be submitted on July 1, 2009 and each three years thereafter.
The Agency may exempt a hospital from future plan updates if the hospital has achieved
greater than 95 percent reduction in mercury use from the baseline year and has demonstrated
to the Agency that written purchasing policies are in place to minimize or eliminate
mercury use in products. (Added 2005, No. 13, § 1.)