---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 C.F.R. § 262.263"
title: "40"
number: "262.263"
heading: "Amendment of contingency plan."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/40/262.263"
---

# §262.263. Amendment of contingency plan.


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

- (a) Applicable regulations are revised;
- (b) The plan fails in an emergency;
- (c) **The generator 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.**

## Notes

### Source

Source: 81 FR 85823, Nov. 28, 2016, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 6906, 6912, 6922-6925, 6937, 6938 and 6939g.

### Source

Source: 45 FR 33142, May 19, 1980, unless otherwise noted.