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.Notice of Proposed Standards Activity
Date Posted: 6-12-2017
Volume 1 and 2 of the NELAC Institute's (TNI) Field Sampling and Measurement Organization Sector standards address "General Requirements for Field Sampling and Measurement Organizations" and "General Requirements for Accreditation Bodies Accrediting Field Sampling and Measurement Organizations." The TNI Field Activities Expert Committee (FAC) seeks to review and update both Volume 1 and 2 of the Standard. The review will encompass any Standard Comment Forms and responses from all stages of the previous standards development activity, any comments previously placed on hold during the previous standards development, Standards Interpretation Requests (SIR) resolutions and any recommendations made by FAC during the previous standards development activity for future consideration. The updates will include the new ISO/IEC 17011 and ISO/IEC 17025 requirements incorporated, in order, along with the additional normative requirements added by TNI.
Pursuant to Section 5.2.1 of SOP 2-100 v2 (available on the TNI website) input is solicited from stakeholders and stakeholder groups who may subsequently adopt this standard as accreditation bodies, may be accredited to the standard, or may use data from accredited field sampling and measurement organizations. Those who are interested in participating and providing input into this process are invited to contact, within 30 days the FAC Committee Chair, Kevin Holbrooks through e-mail [email protected] or the FAC Program Administrator, Ilona Taunton, through email at [email protected]. The FAC Committee will then arrange to meet with interested stakeholders by webinar.