Guiding regional brownfield and land revitalization policies, crafting sustainability programs nation-wide, and reshaping the EPA´s grant application process, are all in a day´s work for the Brownfield and Land Revitalization arm of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), led by Director David R. Lloyd.

No stranger to the EPA, Lloyd has been an integral part of the agency since 1991, where he was Assistant General Counsel for the Claims and Property Law division. His office falls within the larger Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OWSER). Lloyd explains that his office has multiple roles. One is to help manage the national brownfield program. Second, his office is charged with setting national policy for brownfield grants and initiatives. Additionally, management of all resources for all regional brownfield programs falls under his domain. Over the last year, his office also took responsibility for managing land revitalization across OWSER, which has involved working to incorporate land revitalization into all cleanup programs. The overall goal of the land revitalization program is to coordinate with other offices to make sure the properties are revitalized and used in a productive way. ...

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