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

   1. 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 certification;
   2. 3. Failure to maintain or utilize approved quality control procedures, recordkeeping, reporting procedures, methodology, personnel requirements, equipment, facilities or analytical techniques on which the certification was issued;
   3. 4. Failure to achieve acceptable results on performance evaluation samples; or 5. For laboratories holding Department-Issued certification, the expiration, suspension or revocation of the laboratory's reciprocal out-of-state certification
2. B. The Department may conduct on-site evaluations of certified laboratories.

Added by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 37, eff. July 1, 1993; Amended by Laws 1998, c. 109, § 4, eff. April 13,1998 (superseded document available).