---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 C.F.R. § 761.193"
title: "40"
number: "761.193"
heading: "Maintenance of monitoring records by persons who import, manufacture, process, distribute in commerce, or use chemicals containing inadvertently generated PCBs."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/40/761.193"
---

# §761.193. Maintenance of monitoring records by persons who import, manufacture, process, distribute in commerce, or use chemicals containing inadvertently generated PCBs.

- (a) Persons who import, manufacture, process, distribute in commerce, or use chemicals containing PCBs present as a result of inadvertent generation or recycling who perform any actual monitoring of PCB concentrations must maintain records of any such monitoring for a period of three years after a process ceases operation or importing ceases, or for seven years, whichever is shorter.
- (b) Monitoring records maintained pursuant to [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section must contain:
  - (1) **The method of analysis.**
  - (2) **The results of the analysis, including data from the Quality Assurance Plan.**
  - (3) **Description of the sample matrix.**
  - (4) **The name of the analyst or analysts.**
  - (5) **The date and time of the analysis.**
  - (6) **Numbers for the lots from which the samples are taken.**

## Notes

### Amendments

[49 FR 28193, July 10, 1984, as amended at 58 FR 34205, June 23, 1993]

### Authority

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 2605, 2607, 2611, 2614, and 2616 and 42 U.S.C. 6939g.

### Source

Source: 43 FR 7156, Feb. 17, 1978, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[49 FR 28193, July 10, 1984, as amended at 58 FR 34205, June 23, 1993]