Mission Statement

Development of TNI consensus standards that enable the externalization of the EPA's Stationary Source Audit Program (SSAP), including the following:

• Roles and responsibilities of program participants
• Manufacture of audit samples
• Oversight of audit sample providers
• Management of audit sample results
• Acceptance criteria
  
  

Committee Sponsor

• TNI Board of Directors
• Consensus Standards Development Board
  
  

Objectives

• Specifications for the manufacture of audit samples
• Quantification of audit samples - analysis for true value, validation, homogeneity, stability, etc.
• Acceptance criteria - how they are derived, representativeness of the sample, etc.
• Approval program for the audit sample providers
• Turnaround time on audit sample provider manufacturer
  
  

Success Measures

• Constitution of final Expert Committee Charter by January 2009
• Development of a Working Draft Standard by January 2009
• Recognition of TNI program by EPA
  
  

Key Milestones

• Development of Working Draft Standard (WDS) (January 2009)
• Presentation of WDS at TNI Winter 2009 meeting
• Incorporation of WDS comments to develop Voting Draft Standard (VDS)(April 2009)
• Vote VDS out of committee for TNI ballot (May 2009)
• Posting of VDS for TNI ballot (June 2009)
• Discussion of VDS comments at TNI Summer 2009 meeting (August 2009)
• Development of response to comments document (December 2009)
• Confirmation of committee vote on modified VDS document (January 2010)
  
  

Considerations

• EPA SSAP funding will end in October 2009
• Committee is inexperienced in development of TNI consensus standards
• Committee has limited timeframe to develop standards
• Potential confusion as to role of committee versus existing Proficiency Testing Expert Committee
  
  

Available Resources

• Mentors available from experienced TNI Expert Committees
• TNI Program Administrator can staff administrative functions
• Some funding available for face-to-face meeting through NSF International cooperative agreement
• Standards templates available by using existing TNI Proficiency Testing modules
• EPA program documentation
  
  

Additional Resources Required

• Canadian SS AP resources - research potential correlations
  
  

Anticipated Meeting Schedule

• Twice monthly teleconference
• Face-to-face meeting in Fall 2008
• TNI Winter 2009 meeting (Miami, FL))
• TNI Summer 2009 meeting (San Antonio, TX)