40 CFR § 264.54 - Amendment of contingency plan.

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t40/s264.54"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "40 CFR § 264.54 - Amendment of contingency plan."
title_number: 40
title_name: "Protection of Environment"
section_number: "264.54"
section_name: "Amendment of contingency plan."
chapter_name: "ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY"
subchapter_number: "I"
subchapter_name: "SOLID WASTES"
part_number: "264"
part_name: "STANDARDS FOR OWNERS AND OPERATORS OF HAZARDOUS WASTE TREATMENT, STORAGE, AND DISPOSAL FACILITIES"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "42 U.S.C. 6905, 6912(a), 6924, 6925, and 6939g."
regulatory_source: "45 FR 33221, May 19, 1980, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "264"
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# 264.54 Amendment of contingency plan.

The contingency plan must be reviewed, and immediately amended, if necessary, whenever:

(a) The facility permit is revised;

(b) The plan fails in an emergency;

(c) The facility changes—in its design, construction, operation, maintenance, or other circumstances—in a way that materially increases the potential for fires, explosions, or releases of hazardous waste or hazardous waste constituents, or changes the response necessary in an emergency;

(d) The list of emergency coordinators changes; or

(e) The list of emergency equipment changes.

[45 FR 33221, May 19, 1980, as amended at 50 FR 4514, Jan. 31, 1985; 53 FR 37935, Sept. 28, 1988]