---
kind: "section"
citation: "24 C.F.R. § 3280.407"
title: "24"
number: "3280.407"
heading: "Quality control testing, manuals, facilities, and personnel."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/24/3280.407"
---

# §3280.407. Quality control testing, manuals, facilities, and personnel.

- (a) **Definitions.** For purposes of this section, the definitions found in [40 CFR 770.3](/cfr/40/770.3.md) apply.
- (b) **Quality control testing.** Quality control testing is required for hardwood plywood made with a veneer core or composite core, medium density fiberboard, thin medium density fiberboard, and particleboard and must be performed in accordance with the general requirements in [40 CFR 770.20(a)](/cfr/40/770.20.md?p=a) and by one of the test methods and at the frequency specified in [40 CFR 770.20(b)](/cfr/40/770.20.md?p=b). Panels being tested with an equivalence and correlation must be determined in accordance with [40 CFR 770.20(d)](/cfr/40/770.20.md?p=d).
- (c) **Quality control manuals, facilities, and personnel.** A panel producer must have a written quality control manual, must designate a quality control facility for conducting quality control formaldehyde testing under this section, and must designate a person as quality control manager with adequate experience and/or training to be responsible for formaldehyde emissions quality control consistent with [40 CFR 770.21](/cfr/40/770.21.md). A panel producer means a manufacturing plant or other facility that manufactures (excluding facilities that solely import products) composite wood products (hardwood plywood made with a veneer or composite core, medium-density fiberboard, and particleboard) on the premises.

## Notes

### Amendments

[85 FR 5566, Jan. 31, 2020]

### Authority

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 2697, 42 U.S.C. 3535(d), 5403, and 5424.

### Source

Source: 40 FR 58752, Dec. 18, 1975, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 44 FR 20679, Apr. 6, 1979.

### Amendments

[85 FR 5566, Jan. 31, 2020]