Program Administrator for A National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program Cooperative Agreement

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Program Administrator for A National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program Cooperative Agreement: The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is offering financial ssistance to a technically qualified, eligible organization interested in being the Program Administrator for a national environmental laboratory accreditation system. For approximately nine years, a joint federal, state, and private sector effort has been underway to establish a uniform national environmental laboratory accreditation program. (NOTE: Accreditation is defined here as the process by which a governmental body or organization evaluates and recognizes a laboratory as meeting certain predetermined qualifications or standards.) The program consists of a federal-state partnership called the National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Conference (NELAC), which serves as a means for member organizations to adopt consistent standards for laboratory accreditation and program operation in addition to a program administrative function that is currently performed by the EPA. While the EPA has been temporarily performing the duties of program administrator (e.g., accrediting the NELAC Accrediting Authorities) and funding the operation of the program (e.g., NELAC meetings), the program has now reached the point where its long-term success requires that it become self-sufficient. As part of its effort to continue to assist the laboratory community in achieving the goal of having a single national environmental laboratory program, the Agency is offering to assist an appropriate organization in the transition to self-sufficiency.