---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 C.F.R. § 267.54"
title: "40"
number: "267.54"
heading: "When must I amend the contingency plan?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/40/267.54"
---

# §267.54. When must I amend the contingency plan?


You must review, and immediately amend the contingency plan, if necessary, whenever:

- (a) **The facility permit is revised.**
- (b) **The plan fails in an emergency.**
- (c) You change the facility (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) **You change the list of emergency coordinators.**
- (e) **You change the list of emergency equipment.**

## 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.