1. The NELAC InstituteProficiency Testing Board (PT Board)

2. Carl Kircher, FL DOH, Chair Gary Dechant, AQS Steve Gibson, TCEQ Raeann Haynes, OR DEQ Bill Ingersoll, US Navy Svetlana Isozamova, Accutest Michella Karapondo, US EPA Kirsten McCracken, TestAmerica Richard Sheibley, WS Consulting Matt Sica, ME DOH Eric Smith, TestAmerica Curtis Wood, ERA TNI PT Board

3. Purpose • Establish and maintain a national PT program to support a national environmental laboratory accreditation program.

4. Elements of Program • Ensure adequate oversight of PT providers • Establish Fields of Proficiency Testing • Matrices, analytes, concentrations, formulation recommendations, and acceptance limits • General management of program

5. Oversight of PT Providers • Provide assistance to the TNI Board of Directors on the selection of Proficiency Testing Provider Accreditors (PTPA’s) • Evaluate new organizations seeking to become PTPA’s, and monitor existing PTPA’s to assure that they are following the requirements set forth by TNI

6. Establish Fields of Proficiency Testing • Review & evaluate PT data for the purposes of determining the appropriateness of PT study formulations, concentrations, & acceptance limits • Provide recommendations to the NELAP Board as to PT study formulations, concentration ranges, and acceptance limits

7. General Management • Facilitate an annual caucus on proficiency testing. • Serve as a review board for unresolved complaints about PT samples among environmental laboratories, accreditation bodies, PTPA’s, and PT Providers that the PTPA cannot resolve. • Represent TNI & assume a leadership role, where appropriate, in activities involving national & international PT standards development & implementation of PT programs • ANSI International Conformity Assessment Committee (ICAC)

8. TNI PT Board SOPs • PT Board Operations • PT Board Voting Process • PTPA Evaluation Process • PT Acceptance Criteria Evaluation • Conducting the Annual PT Caucus • Handling Complaints • PTPA Appeal Process (draft)

9. Fields of Proficiency Testing Tables • DW Accreditation Analytes (Micro., Chem.) • DW Accreditation Analytes (Radiochem.) • DW Experimental Analytes • NPW Accreditation Analytes • NPW Experimental Analytes • SCM Accreditation Analytes • SCM Experimental Analytes

10. PT Board Current Activities • Microbiology FoPT Subcommittee • PTPA On-Going Monitoring of PT Providers • Annual PT Caucus Jan. 16, 2008 • Biennial evaluation of A2LA as PTOB/PTPA • Includes observing on-site assessment of PT Provider • Input to ISO 17043 Working Draft • Special Session Jan. 17, 2008 (Air & Emissions + Field Sampling & Measurements Proficiency Testing)