New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 7 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Chapter 18 - REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE CERTIFICATION OF LABORATORIES AND ENVIRONMENTAL MEASUREMENTS › Subchapter 2 - PROGRAM PROCEDURES AND REQUIREMENTS › Section 7:18-2.15 - Cancellation, suspension, or revocation of certification

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) Any
				certified environmental laboratory may cancel its certification in any
				Category, or in any parameters within a Category, by notifying the Department
				in writing. Cancellations during a PT study are subject to
7:18-2.13(i)
3iv. When totally withdrawing from the environmental laboratory
				certification program, the environmental laboratory shall enclose its
				certificate and ACPL with the letter of notification. This cancellation
				notification shall not entitle the environmental laboratory to any refund of
				its certification fees.
(b) The
				Department may suspend a certified environmental laboratory's certification for
				any one or more of the grounds listed below. Grounds for suspension include the
				following:
1. For all Categories, except
				Radiochemical Testing and Radon/Radon Progeny-in-Air, failure to submit results
				of PT sample analyses for every required parameter in two consecutive
				proficiency studies, pursuant to
7:18-2.13
;
2. For the Radiochemical or Radon/Radon
				Progeny-in-Air Categories, failure to submit results of PT samples in two
				consecutive PT studies as required under
7:18-2.13(h)
;
3. For all Categories,
				except those in Radiochemical Testing, Radon/Radon Progeny-in-Air, or
				Categories DW08, DW09, NPW10, NPW11, SCM09, SCM10, SCM11, CLP02, CLP03, CLP05,
				CLP06, and AE04, failing to acceptably analyze all samples for any one
				parameter in two consecutive PT studies. This failure is grounds for suspension
				in the parameter;
4. For Categories
				DW08, DW09, NPW10, NPW11, SCM09, SCM10, SCM11, CLP02, CLP03, CLP05, CLP06, and
				AE04, failing to acceptably analyze all samples for any one parameter in two
				consecutive proficiency studies. This failure is grounds for suspension in the
				method used to analyze the parameter in question;
5. For radiochemical parameters, failure to
				acceptably analyze one PT sample or two cross-check samples per year;
6. For determination of radon in water,
				failure to acceptably analyze all required PT samples, not to exceed four
				samples per year;
7. For
				radon/radon progeny-in-air, failure to acceptably analyze all required RMP
				tests made available during the fiscal year through an authorized proficiency
				testing program for each stationary detection device, not to exceed four tests
				per year and not less than one per year;
8. The occurrence of a moderate or major
				violation (as defined at
				7:18-10.4 ), if one of the
				following has occurred within the three years preceding the violation:
i. Another moderate or major violation for
				the same parameter or method; or
ii. Another moderate or major violation
				arising from the same type of act or omission (such as an act or omission
				concerning laboratory personnel requirements; equipment, supplies, materials
				and instrumentation; testing procedures; misrepresentation; or work beyond the
				purview of a certification); or
9. The violation of an order by the
				Department to correct a moderate or major violation within a specified
				time.