Exhibit  99.1
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                                              NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
                                                   For More Information Contact:
       Terry J. Logan, Ph.D., N-Viro International Corp., tlogan@nviro.com (614)
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                N-VIRO ANNOUNCES ANNUAL STOCKHOLDERS MEETING DATE

Toledo,  Ohio,  March  19,  2003  -  N-Viro International Corp. (OTC BB/NVIC.OB)
announced  that  the 2003 Annual Stockholders Meeting will be held on August 14,
2003,  as approved by the Board of Directors at a meeting on March 4, 2003. This
date is approximately 95 days later than the 2003 meeting date referenced in the
Company's 2002 Notice of Annual Meeting and Proxy Statement dated April 5, 2002.
The  reasons  cited  by  the  Board  for delaying the annual meeting include the
following:  (1)  the Company is planning on amending its 1998 Stock Option Plan,
which  is  scheduled to expire in May, 2003, and additional time is necessary to
finalize  the  form  of the amendment prior to submitting it to shareholders for
approval;  (2)  the  Company's  directors  have had preliminary discussions on a
possible  amendment to the Company's Certificate of Incorporation and By-Laws to
change  the  number  of directors on its Board, and a special committee has been
established  to  review  this  issue and issue a report to the Board in the next
thirty (30) days, any actions approved by the Board with respect to amending the
Company's  Certificate  of  Incorporation  would  need  to  be  approved  by the
shareholders at the annual meeting in order to be effective; and (3) the Company
believes  that  by  delaying  the  annual  meeting  it will realize cost savings
through  an  enhanced  ability  to  rely  upon internal resources to prepare and
administer  the  proxy documents and other public filings, as compared to solely
relying  on  outside  legal  counsel  to  prepare  such  items.

As such, the Board of Directors requests that any shareholder proposals intended
for  inclusion  in  the Company's proxy materials for the 2003 Annual Meeting be
submitted  to  James K. McHugh, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Corporate
Secretary  of  the Company, in writing no later than April 21, 2003.  Unless the
Company  has been given written notice by May 26, 2003 of a shareholder proposal
to  be  presented at the 2003 Annual Meeting other than by means of inclusion in
the  Company's  proxy  materials  for  the meeting, persons named in the proxies
solicited  by the Board of Directors for the meeting may use their discretionary
voting  authority  to  vote  against  the  proposal.

N-Viro  International  Corporation  develops  and  licenses  its  technology  to
municipalities  and  private  companies.  N-Viro's  patented  processes use lime
and/or  mineral-rich, combustion byproducts to treat, pasteurize, immobilize and
convert  wastewater  sludge  and  other  bio-organic  wastes  into  biomineral
agricultural  and  soil-enrichment  products  with  real  market  value.  More
information  about N-Viro International can be obtained by contacting the office
or  on  the  Internet  at  www.nviro.com or by e-mail inquiry to info@nviro.com.
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The  Company  cautions  that  words  used  in  this  document such as "expects,"
"anticipates,"  "believes"  and  "may," as well as similar words and expressions
used  herein, identify and refer to statements describing events that may or may
not  occur  in  the future.  These forward-looking statements and the matters to
which  they  refer are subject to considerable uncertainty that may cause actual
results  to  be  materially different from those described herein.  For example,
while  the  Company believes that trends in sludge treatment are moving in favor
of the Company's technology, such trends may not continue or may never result in
increased  sales  or  profits  to  the  Company  because  of the availability of
competing  processes.
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