Sec.19a-36-A60. Referral of samples

(a) An environmental laboratory shall refer samples for testing only to an environmental laboratory that is registered or approved by the department.

(b) An environmental laboratory shall perform at least seventy (70) percent of those tests for which it has approval and refer out those tests for which approval has not been granted.

(c) When samples have been referred, reports shall be done by one of the following:

(1) The testing environmental laboratory, with permission from the referring environmental laboratory, may send test results directly to the person who ordered the tests.

(2) The referring environmental laboratory shall indicate on the report to the person who ordered the test the name and address of each environmental laboratory at which a test was performed.

(Adopted effective November 29, 1995)