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).
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.TNI Supports Laboratory Testing as an Essential Service during the COVID-19 Outbreak
Date Posted: 3-30-2020
On March 26, 2020, EPA announced they will exercise reasonable enforcement discretion for noncompliance to EPA regulations resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, if regulated entities take the steps applicable to their situations. The memo specifically mentions compliance monitoring, sampling, laboratory analysis, and reporting and discusses the key role laboratories play. The memo however does not govern State enforcement decisions and the memo does require regulated facilities to meet specified criteria. TNI believes environmental laboratories are essential to the protection of the environmental and public health. As such, TNI supports the efforts these laboratories are undertaking to ensure sufficient laboratory testing capacity exists to respond to monitoring needs of the regulated community and the public. https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2020-03/documents/oecamemooncovid19implications.pdf