§ 8-2-208 - Certification -- Revocation. - Arkansas Statutes

8-2-208. Certification -- Revocation.

(a) Once certified, a laboratory's certification may be revoked or suspended by the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality:

(1) For knowing falsification of any data submitted to the department or any data related to laboratory analysis;

(2) For knowingly making any false statement, representation, or certification in any application, record, report, plan, or other document issued by or sent to the department or related to laboratory analysis;

(3) For knowing misrepresentation of procedures or documentation used in sampling or laboratory analysis;

(4) If the laboratory in question is no longer entitled to the certification by reason of its failure to comply with the proper analytical, quality assurance, recordkeeping, and reporting methods and procedures and the facilities, equipment, and personnel requirements on which the certification was issued; or

(5) If the laboratory demonstrably fails to achieve acceptable results for specific parameters for which it has been certified.

(b) It shall be unlawful for any person:

(1) To knowingly falsify any data submitted to the department or any data related to laboratory analysis;

(2) To knowingly make any false statement, representation, or certification in any application, record, report, plan, or other document issued by or sent to the department or related to laboratory analysis;

(3) To knowingly misrepresent sampling procedures or methods used in laboratory analysis;

(4) To knowingly render inaccurate any certification issued under this subchapter; or

(5) While knowing that a person is not certified pursuant to the program, to knowingly represent that that person is so certified.