Laboratory management plan

An eligible academic entity must develop and retain a written laboratory management plan, or revise an existing written plan. The laboratory management plan is a site-specific document that describes how the eligible academic entity will manage unwanted materials in compliance with sections 33.1-24-03-60 through 33.1-24-03-77. An eligible academic entity may write one laboratory management plan for all the laboratories owned by the eligible academic entity that have chosen to be subject to sections 33.1-24-03-60 through 33.1-24-03-77, even if the laboratories are located at sites with different identification numbers. The laboratory management plan must contain two parts with a total of nine elements identified in subsections 1 and 2. In part I of the eligible academic entity's laboratory management plan, an eligible academic entity must describe the eligible academic entity's procedures for each of the elements listed in subsection 1. An eligible academic entity must implement and comply with the specific provisions that the eligible academic entity develops to address the elements in part I of the laboratory management plan. In part II of the eligible academic entity's laboratory management plan, an eligible academic entity must describe the eligible academic entity's best management practices for each of the elements listed in subsection 2. The specific actions taken by an eligible academic entity to implement each element in part II of the eligible academic entity's laboratory management plan may vary from the procedures described in the eligible academic entity's laboratory management plan, without constituting a violation of sections 33.1-24-03-60 through 33.1-24-03-77. An eligible academic entity may include additional elements and best management practices in part II of the eligible academic entity's laboratory management plan if the eligible academic entity chooses. 1. The eligible academic entity must implement and comply with the specific provisions of part I of the eligible academic entity's laboratory management plan. In part I of the eligible academic entity's laboratory management plan, an eligible academic entity must: a. Describe procedures for container labeling in accordance with subsection 1 of section 33.1-24-03-67, as follows: (1) Identifying whether the eligible academic entity will use the term "unwanted material" on the containers in the laboratory. If not, identify an equally effective term that will be used in lieu of "unwanted material" and consistently by the eligible academic entity. The equally effective term, if used, has the same meaning and is subject to the same requirements as "unwanted material". (2) Identifying the manner in which information that is "associated with the container" will be imparted. b. Identify whether the eligible academic entity will comply with subdivisions a or b of subsection 1 of section 33.1-24-03-69 for regularly scheduled removals of unwanted material from the laboratory. 2. In part II of the laboratory management plan, an eligible academic entity must: a. Describe intended best practices for container labeling and management (see the required standards in section 33.1-24-03-67). b. Describe intended best practices for providing training for laboratory workers and students commensurate with their duties (subsection 1 of section 33.1-24-03-68). c. Describe intended best practices for providing training to ensure safe onsite transfers of unwanted material and hazardous waste by trained professionals (subdivision a of subsection 4 of section 33.1-24-03-68). d. Describe intended best practices for removing unwanted material from the laboratory, including: (1) For regularly scheduled removals. Develop a regular schedule for identifying and removing unwanted materials from its laboratories (subdivisions a and b of subsection 1 of section 33.1-24-03-69). (2) For removals when maximum volumes are exceeded: (a) Describe intended best practices for removing unwanted materials from the laboratory within ten calendar days when unwanted materials have exceeded the unwanted materials maximum volumes (subsection 4 of section 33.1-24-03-69). (b) Describe intended best practices for communicating that unwanted materials have exceeded the unwanted materials maximum volumes. e. Describe intended best practices for making hazardous waste determinations, including specifying the duties of the individuals involved in the process (section 33.1-24-03-02, and sections 33.1-24-03-70 through 33.1-24-03-73). f. Describe intended best practices for laboratory clean-outs, if the eligible academic entity plans to use the incentives for laboratory clean-outs provided in section 33.1-24-03-74, including: (1) Procedures for conducting laboratory clean-outs (subdivisions a through c of subsection 1 of section 33.1-24-03-74). (2) Procedures for documenting laboratory clean-outs (subdivision d of subsection 1 of section 33.1-24-03-74). g. Describe intended best practices for emergency prevention, including: (1) Procedures for emergency prevention, notification, and response, appropriate to the hazards in the laboratory; (2) A list of chemicals that the eligible academic entity has, or is likely to have, that become more dangerous when the chemicals exceed their expiration date, or as they degrade, or both; (3) Procedures to safely dispose of chemicals that become more dangerous when the chemicals exceed their expiration date, or as they degrade, or both; and (4) Procedures for the timely characterization of unknown chemicals. 3. An eligible academic entity must make the eligible academic entity's laboratory management plan available to laboratory workers, students, or any others at the eligible academic entity who request the laboratory management plan. 4. An eligible academic entity must review and revise the eligible academic entity's laboratory management plan, as needed.