develop consensus standards for use by TNI's programs. This group has a support role in assisting other programs with activities such as guidance and standards interpretation.
fosters the generation of data of known and documented quality is through the National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program, or NELAP. The purpose of this program is to establish and implement a program for the accreditation of environmental laboratories.
is to establish and maintain a national PT program to support TNI’s National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program, and other activities.
Field Activities Program (NEFAP) Executive Committee is to establish and implement an accreditation program for field sampling and measurement organizations (FSMOs).
Audit Sample Program is to develop consensus standards for the manufacture and analysis of audit samples for source emission testing.
on a variety of topics of interest to the environmental measurement community. TNI also hosts two regularly scheduled meetings per year, typically in January and August. Both are a week long and involve open meetings of TNI committees as well as training courses and other special sessions.Voting Draft Standards for the Stationary Source Audit Sample Program
Date Posted: 5-15-2009
TNI is pleased to announce the publication of the voting draft standards (below) for any TNI member to consider and provide a vote (links will open in a new window):
General Requirements For Stationary Source Audit Sample Providers
Volume 1, Module 1 (PDF, 145KB)
As stated in TNI’s Policies Governing Standards Development, any TNI member may vote on any of these Voting Draft Standards by voting:
- Affirmative,
- Affirmative with comment,
- Negative with comment, or
- Abstain.
In order to vote, you must log in to the Members Only area of the website and click on SSAS Vote. The ballot must be returned by 12:01am EDT, June 30, 2009 to be considered. All comments will be considered at the meetings of the SSAS Expert Committee in San Antonio, Texas on August 11, 2009. The meetings are open to the public, and you do not need to be present for your comment to be considered.
Because this is a critical step in the consensus process used by TNI for standards development, only those comments that are provided with a ballot during this voting period will be considered at the San Antonio meeting. No additional comments will be accepted during the public meeting on the Voting Draft Standards, but, as time permits, such comments may be considered for a future revision.
After the San Antonio meeting, the SSAS Expert Committee will begin their efforts to develop the Final Standards. This process may occur quickly if very few negative votes are received, or may take longer if significant revisions to the Voting Draft Standards are required.
If everything proceeds according to the expected schedule, the Final Standards should be adopted by TNI no later than September, at which time the Final Standards would be available for other organizations to use.
These documents are the result of many hours of effort by those volunteers on the SSAS Expert Committee. The TNI Board of Directors wishes to thank all of these volunteers for their efforts.
Sincerely,
Jerry Parr
Executive Director