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 NEFAP Available for Review
Date Posted: 11-29-2012
The TNI Field Activities Committee has voted to approve 2 Voting Draft Standards. Copies of these standards can be found below. All documents are in PDF format. Deletions are in strike-out text, additions are underlined. Click the links below to download.
In accordance with SOP 2-100, this standard will be open to a membership vote beginning on December 14, 2012. This vote will be open for 30 days, concluding on January 12, 2013. Any votes cast on or before January 12, 2013 (closing date) will be discussed publically at the Field Activities committee meeting on Tuesday morning in Denver, CO on January 15, 2013.
TNI urges all members to vote on this standard before January 12, 2013 (closing date).
TNI NEFAP Voting Draft Standards
Volume 1, General Requirements for Field Sampling and Measurement Organizations
Clicking on the module title, above, will open a PDF of the Voting Draft Standard for that module.
When voting you will have the following options:
- Affirmative
- Affirmative with comment
- Negative with comment
- Abstain