Jason Seyler, Hazardous Substance Brownfield Coordinator, Montana Dept. of Environmental Quality, Helena, Mont.
As the Hazardous Substance Brownfield Coordinator, Seyler works with non-profits, communities, and developers to facilitate the assessment and cleanup of releases of hazardous substances at Brownfield sites in Montana. In Montana, many of these releases occurred at sites where mining, smelting, wood treating, railroad fueling and maintenance, petroleum refining, landfilling, or chemical manufacturing/storage activities were conducted. Seyler also works as DEQ's Voluntary Cleanup Plan Coordinator to address state superfund facilities so that they can be put into productive use.

Amy Steinmetz, Petroleum Brownfields Coordinator, Montana DEQ
Steinmetz has been with DEQ for five years, and brings environmental assessment and cleanup experience from working as a regulator and chemist and working in an environmental lab in her role as Petroleum Brownfields Coordinator. "I really enjoy working in an environmental job where the focus is more on helping communities than on regulation and enforcement," Steinmetz said.

Becky Holmes, Hazardous Waste Brownfields Coordinator, Montana DEQ
Holmes works in the DEQ Hazardous Waste Program and administers the program's share of the department's 128(a) Brownfields grant. In addition to her duties as a hazardous waste permit writer, she directs brownfields funding for site assessments and cleanups at hazardous waste generator facilities. She also coordinates funding for special projects, which in the past have included providing information on public school chemistry lab cleanouts, and regulatory requirements for owners of property contaminated by meth residue. "Involvement with Brownfields has helped change my perspective about contaminated sites—the endpoint is reuse, not just getting the corrective measure in place."

Aaron Scheff, Brownfield Response Program Manager, Idaho Dept. of Environmental Quality
Scheff's brownfields experience started in the early 1990s as a private consultant in EPA Region 9 with a focus on petroleum, chlorinated solvents, and agribusiness sites. After moving to Idaho, he managed the Idaho Division of Health's Environmental Health Education and Assessment Program before moving to the Idaho DEQ to build Idaho's Brownfields Response Program, which he currently manages. Aside from providing technical assistance, cost-free site specific environmental assessments, risk evaluations, and cleanup planning at qualifying brownfield sites, the program is engaged in inventorying brownfield sites throughout Idaho and conducting outreach in urban and rural communities to assist local governments, non-profits, and private entities with their brownfield redevelopment projects.

The program is a member of the Reuse Idaho Brownfields Coalition (RIBC) composed of IDEQ and Idaho's six economic development districts. RIBC manages a $4.5 million revolving loan fund dedicated to providing loans and sub grants to eligible entities in support of brownfield cleanup activities. The program also coordinates with IDEQ's Voluntary Cleanup Program to implement the Community Reinvestment Pilot Initiative (Pilot), which makes $1.5 million in state funds available to private and non-profit entities completing IDEQ-approved cleanups at up to 10 brownfield sites statewide. Scheff earned concurrent Bachelor of Science degrees in Geology and Marketing from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio before moving on to graduate studies in geology at Bowling Green State University, Ohio and earning a Master of Education degree from Arizona State University in Tempe, Ariz.