§ 27A-2-4-305. Suspension, revocation, or refusal to renew laboratory accreditation.

A.  The Department of Environmental Quality may suspend, revoke, or refuse to renew in part or in whole the accreditation of any laboratory which does not continue to comply with Board of Environmental Quality rules or conditions of accreditation, or for cause, including but not limited to:

1.  The knowing and willful falsification of data submitted to the Department;

2.  The misrepresentation or omission of material data in any report submitted to any person relying on such report because of the laboratory's accreditation;

3.  Failure to maintain or utilize approved quality control procedures, recordkeeping, reporting procedures, methodology, personnel requirements, equipment, facilities or analytical techniques on which the accreditation was issued;

4.  Failure to achieve acceptable results on proficiency testing samples; or

5.  For laboratories holding Department-issued accreditation, the expiration, suspension or revocation of the laboratory's reciprocal out-of-state certification or accreditation.

B.  The Department may conduct on-site evaluations of accredited laboratories.

Added by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 37, eff. July 1, 1993.  Amended by Laws 1998, c. 109, § 4, emerg. eff. April 13, 1998; Laws 2003, c. 118, § 8, emerg. eff. April 22, 2003.