---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 C.F.R. § 267.32"
title: "40"
number: "267.32"
heading: "What equipment am I required to have?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/40/267.32"
---

# §267.32. What equipment am I required to have?


Your facility must be equipped with all of the following, unless none of the hazards posed by waste handled at the facility could require a particular kind of equipment specified below:

- (a) An internal communications or alarm system capable of providing immediate emergency instruction (voice or signal) to facility personnel.
- (b) A device, such as a telephone (immediately available at the scene of operations) or a hand-held two-way radio, capable of summoning emergency assistance from local police departments, fire departments, or State or local emergency response teams.
- (c) Portable fire extinguishers, fire control equipment (including special extinguishing equipment, such as that using foam, inert gas, or dry chemicals), spill control equipment, and decontamination equipment.
- (d) Water at adequate volume and pressure to supply water hose streams, or foam-producing equipment, or automatic sprinklers, or water spray systems.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 6902, 6912(a), 6924-6926, and 6930.

### Source

Source: 70 FR 53453, Sept. 8, 2005, unless otherwise noted.