[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 21]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR160.63]

[Page 148-149]
 
                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 160--GOOD LABORATORY PRACTICE STANDARDS--Table of Contents
 
                          Subpart D--Equipment
 
Sec. 160.63  Maintenance and calibration of equipment.

    (a) Equipment shall be adequately inspected, cleaned, and 
maintained. Equipment used for the generation, measurement, or 
assessment of data

[[Page 149]]

shall be adequately tested, calibrated, and/or standardized.
    (b) The written standard operating procedures required under 
Sec. 160.81(b)(11) shall set forth in sufficient detail the methods, 
materials, and schedules to be used in the routine inspection, cleaning, 
maintenance, testing, calibration, and/ or standardization of equipment, 
and shall specify, when appropriate, remedial action to be taken in the 
event of failure or malfunction of equipment. The written standard 
operating procedures shall designate the person responsible for the 
performance of each operation.
    (c) Written records shall be maintained of all inspection, 
maintenance, testing, calibrating, and/or standardizing operations. 
These records, containing the dates of the operations, shall describe 
whether the maintenance operations were routine and followed the written 
standard operating procedures. Written records shall be kept of 
nonroutine repairs performed on equipment as a result of failure and 
malfunction. Such records shall document the nature of the defect, how 
and when the defect was discovered, and any remedial action taken in 
response to the defect.