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.Response-to-Comments to 2012 Voting Draft Standard Posted
Date Posted: 5-14-2015
In 2012 the TNI Quality Systems Committee presented a Voting Draft Standard (VDS) for Modules 2 through 6 of Volume 1 of the Environmental Sector Standard. Following the voting period, this standard was modified to resolve persuasive comments, but it was not adopted as a TNI standard. It is proposed to incorporate these revisions into the upcoming 2015 standard, so the Quality Systems Committee has now finalized the 2012 standard. Accordingly, a Response-to-Comments document from the 2012 VDS has been prepared and may be viewed by clicking on the following link: QSResponseDocument2012.xlsx