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NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY ACCREDITATION CONFERENCE: CONSTITUTION, BYLAWS AND STANDARDS; APPROVED JUNE 2000
Citation:
Hankins, J. NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY ACCREDITATION CONFERENCE: CONSTITUTION, BYLAWS AND STANDARDS; APPROVED JUNE 2000. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/R-00/084 (NTIS PB2001-104049), 2000.
Impact/Purpose:
The overall objective of this task is to provide the Agency with improved science guidance and strategies for more effective science management and administration.
Description:
As Director of the Environmental Protection Agency's National Environmental
Laboratory Accreditation Program (NELAP), I offer my sincere appreciation to the many individuals who worked on the 2000 revision of the NELAC standards. I would like to give special recognition to the chairs who facilitated the seemingly endless committee teleconferences during which all comments were considered and debated, as well as to the chairs who were key in addressing the issues of implementing a new program, disseminating information, tracking regulations, and facilitating the operation of the NELAC process: Dr. Marcia Davies, Ms. Barbara Burmeister, Mr. William Ingersoll, Dr. John Griggs, Mr. Joe Slayton, Mr. John Anderson, Mr. Dan Bivins, Dr. Charles Brokopp, Ms. Carol Batterton, Mr. Matthew Caruso, Dr. Irene Ronning, Dr. Michael Miller, and Dr. Kenneth Jackson. NELAP also thanks Past Chair Dr. James Pearson and his staff at the Virginia Department of Consolidated Laboratory Services for hosting the 61h NELAC Annual Meeting.
In addition, it is my pleasure to recognize the extensive efforts made in implementing the NELAC standards by the NELAP Accrediting Authorities: the California Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program, the Florida Department of Health, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, the New Hampshire Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, the New York State Department of Health, the Oregon Health Division, the Pennsylvania Bureau of Laboratories, and the Utah Department of Health.
We are all looking forward to the announcement of the NELAC accredited laboratories scheduled for January 2001. We have reached this point only through the efforts of everyone who has contributed to the overall process, whether by serving on a NELAC committee or Board of Directors, providing comments to the standards, implementing the standards, or seeking NELAC accreditation. I applaud each of you and ask you to continue the hard work that has created a program of which we can all be proud.
Jeanne Hankins NELAP Director