A proposed medical waste treatment facility in Nesquehoning must make some changes to its plans before it can move forward.

Nesquehoning Planning Commission voted to table the plans for an addition onto the Bio-Haz Solutions Inc. site, located at 23 Tonolli Road, until it can create a corrective action plan as stipulated by 2013 zoning hearing board and planning commission decisions. Those decisions provided conditional approval for the plan as long as the company plant arborvitae along the property facing Route 54 and install slats in the fence to help hide the property.On Monday, David Henritzy, owner of Bio-Haz Solutions, brought a land development plan before the planning commission.The plan, outlined by Gregory Haas of Carbon Engineering, calls for the construction of a 50-by-54-foot building addition to the rear of an existing structure on that property.Haas said the purpose of the addition is to allow room to install two medical waste treatment units.In 2012, Henritzy proposed using an autoclave process to sterilize medical waste with the exception of needles and sharp objects, so it can be placed in regular landfills.On Monday, Henritzy said that process is no longer what he would be using. He said it would be contained in its own dumpster as it is sterilized. Further details about the process were not discussed, and when asked, Henritzy said additional details would be made available during an informational meeting with the state Department of Environmental Protection in Nesquehoning on Dec. 21.Henritzy said that the new process would not create any wastewater, odors or contamination.Haas said the facility would not accept anything radioactive and is in the process as a requirement by DEP to install a radioactivity detection system, which would scan trucks coming onto the site at the entrance and notify the company if anything radioactive is present. That truck would then be contained and necessary sources notified of the contamination.Henritzy asked that the matter of the arborvitae be revisited once Bio-Haz is at the point of processing.Planning commission member John McArdle said that in his eyes, the issue is not something the commission wants to entertain because in a decision by the planning commission on March 13, 2013, the project received conditional plan approval pending the addition of slats to the fence facing Route 54, as well as planting arborvitae facing the property line.McArdle said that this was a stipulation and was not completed."We want to dress up that property and make it look presentable," he said.The board discussed the wording of the previous motion and questioned the distance between the building and fence.Other concerns regarding the size of the roads for fire apparatus in the event of a fire, as well as stormwater discharge were addressed.The company will now have to come before the planning commission again once it completes the corrective action plan that was requested.We're trying to do our best to make things look perfect," Henritzy told the board before the vote.Plans to have Bio-Haz Solutions operating in Nesquehoning have been in the works since 2012.The company, which was headquartered along Seneca Road in Mahoning Township, has a second office in Jacksonville, Florida.According to previous articles published in the Times News, the firm's operation is to pick up medical waste in special, leakproof containers and bags from a variety of sources including doctors' offices, funeral homes, hospitals, veterinarian offices and dentist offices before transporting the items to licensed processing facilities.In 2012, Henritzy planned to create a processing facility in Nesquehoning. Currently, the site is the company's offices.It went before the borough zoning hearing board in late 2012 and was approved for a special exception use for the site.In 2013, the county planning commission and borough planning commission voted to give conditional plan approval for the project.