---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 C.F.R. § 265.54"
title: "40"
number: "265.54"
heading: "Amendment of contingency plan."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/40/265.54"
---

# §265.54. 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 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

### Amendments

[45 FR 33232, May 19, 1980, as amended at 50 FR 4514, Jan. 31, 1985]

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 6905, 6906, 6912, 6922, 6923, 6924, 6925, 6935, 6936, 6937, and 6939g.

### Source

Source: 45 FR 33232, May 19, 1980, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[45 FR 33232, May 19, 1980, as amended at 50 FR 4514, Jan. 31, 1985]