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Montana State Agencies
Agency Contact Phone/Fax
Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ)
P.O. Box 200901
Helena, MT 59620-0901
Greg Hallsten
DEQ CBM
Project Manager
Phone: 406-444-3276
Fax: 406-444-1374
Lisa Peterson
Public Affairs Coordinator
Phone: 406-444-2929
Fax: 406-444-4386
Air Quality Phone: 406-444-3490
Fax: 406-444-1499
Angela McDannel
Controlled Groundwater Area
Phone: 406-444-4991
Fax: 406-444-1923
Jeff Blend
Socioeconomic issues
Phone: 406-444-6762
Fax: 406-444-6836
Tom Reid
Water discharge permits
Phone: 406-444-5329
Fax: 406-444-1374
Bob Bukantis
Water Quality Standards
Phone: 406-444-5320
Fax: 406-444-6836
Jeff May
Permit monitoring
Phone: 406-444-5326
Fax: 406-444-1374
Dean Yashan
TMDL Planning and Public Outreach
Phone: 406-444-5317
Fax: 406-444-6838
Rosie Sada
TMDL Monitoring 
and Assessment
Phone: 406-444-5964
Fax: 406-444-6836
Montana Board of Oil and Gas Conservation (BOGC)
2535 St. John's Avenue
Billings, MT  59102
Tom Richmond
Administrator
Phone: 406-656-0040
Fax: 406-655-6015
Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology (MBMG)
1300 North 27th Street
Billings, MT 59101
John Wheaton
Hydrogeology
Phone: 406-496-4848
Fax: 406-496-4451
Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks (FWP)
P.O. Box 200701
Helena, MT 59620-0701
Don Skaar
Fisheries
Phone: 406-444-7409
Fax: 406-444-4952
Montana Dept. of Natural Resources and
Conservation, (DNRC)

P.O. Box 201601
Helena, MT 59620-1601
Keith Kerbel
Water Rights
Phone: 406-247-4415
Fax: 406-247-4416
Rich Moy
Controlled Groundwater Area
Phone: 406-444-6633
Fax: 406-444-0533
Montana Tech of the University of Montana Groundwater Information Center (GWIC)
1300 West Park Street 
322 Main Hall 
Butte, MT 59701
Tom Patton
Groundwater Assessment
Phone: 406-496-4153
Fax: 406-496-4343
Wyoming State and Federal Agencies
Agency Contact Phone/Fax
State Agencies    
Department of Environmental Quality
Herschler Building
122 West 25th Street
Cheyenne, WY 82002
John Wagner
Administrator
Water Quality Division
Phone: 307-777-7781
Fax: 307-777-5973
David A. Finley
Administrator
Air Quality Division
Phone: 307-777-7391
Fax: 307-777-5616
Game and Fish Department
5400 Bishop Boulevard
Cheyenne, WY 82006
John Baughman
Director
Phone: 307-777-4600
Fax: 307-777-4610
Geological Survey
Wyoming Office
P.O. Box 3008
Laramie, WY 82071
Lance Cook
State Geologist
Phone: 307-766-2286
Fax: 307-766-2605
Oil and Gas Conservation Commission
P.O. Box 2640
Casper, WY 82602-2640
Don Likwaarts
State Oil and Gas Supervisor
Phone: 307-234-7147
Fax: 307-234-5306
State Engineer's Office
Herschler Building
4th Floor East
Cheyenne, WY 82002
Sue Lowry Phone: 307-777-7354
Fax: 307-777-5451
Federal Agencies    
Army Corps of Engineers
WY Regulatory Office
2232 Dell Range Blvd
Suite 210
Cheyenne, WY 82009
Contact Information Phone: 307-772-2300
Fax: 307-772-2920
Bureau of Land Management
Buffalo Field Office
1425 Fort Street
Buffalo, WY 82834
Dennis Stenger
Field Manager
Phone: 307-684-1100
Fax: 307-684-1122
Fish and Wildlife Service 
170 North First St.
Lander, WY 82520
Mark Hogan  
Federal Agencies
Agency Contact Phone/Fax
Army Corps of Engineers
Billings Regulatory Office
1629 Avenue D
Billings, MT 59102
Larry Robson Phone: 406-657-5910
Army Corps of Engineers
Helena Regulatory Office
301 South Park, 
Drawer 10014
Helena, MT  59626-0014
Alan Steinle Phone: 406-441-1371
Fax: 406-441-1380
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Miles City Field Office
111 Garryowen Road
Miles City, MT 59301
Mary Bloom
CBM Program Manager
Phone: 406-233-3649
Fax: 406-233-2921
BLM, Billings Field Office
P.O. Box 36800
5001 Southgate Drive
Billings, MT 59101
Ken Hanify
Natural Resources
Specialist
Phone: 406-896-5245
Fax: 406-896-5281
Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)
Rocky Mountain Regional Office
316 North 26th Street
Billings, MT 59101
Rick Stefanic
Environmental Scientist
Phone: 406-247-7911
Fax: 406-247-7976
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Coalbed Methane Outreach Program
6202J Ariel Rios Building
1200 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20460
Karl Schultz Phone: 202-564-9468
Fax: 202-565-2077
Clark Talkington Phone: 202-564-8969
Fax: 202-565-2077
Environmental Protection Agency
Region VIII 
999 18 Street, Suite 500
Denver, CO 80202-2466
Cindy Cody
NEPA
Phone: 303-312-6228
Wes Wilson
NEPA
Phone: 303-312-6562
Mike Reed
NPDES permits
Phone: 303-312-6132
David Hogle
Underground Injection Control permits
Phone: 303-312-6137
Jean Belille
Environmental Justice
Phone: 303-312-6291
Peggy Livingston
Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act legal
Phone: 303-312-6858
Kimi Matsumoto
National Environmental Policy Act and Indian law, Office of the Regional Council
Phone: 303-312-6875
EPA, Montana Office
Federal Building
Helena, MT  59601
John Wardell
CBM activities in Montana
Phone: 406-457-5001
Fax: 406-441-1125
Barbara Burkland
Tribal Assistance Program
Phone: 406-441-1141
 ext. 236
Fax: 406-441-1125
Julie DalSoglio
Water Quality
Standards and TMDLs
Phone: 406-457-5025
Fax: 406-441-1140
Fish and Wildlife Service
(FWS), Billings Suboffice
Ecological Services
2900 4th Avenue N, #301
Billings, MT 59101
Lou Hanebury
Acting Coordinator
Phone: 406-247-7366
Fax: 406-247-7364
Forest Service
Custer National Forest
Beartooth Ranger District
HC49, Box 3420
Red Lodge, MT 59068
Pat Pierson Phone: 406-446-2103
Fax: 406-446-3918
Geological Survey (USGS)
Helena Office
3162 Bozeman Avenue
Helena, MT 59601
John Kilpatrick
Water issues
Phone: 406-457-5902
Fax: 406-457-5990
USGS Central Region Energy Resources Team 
Box 25046, MS 939 
Denver Federal Center 
Denver, CO 80225
Ted Dyman
CBM studies in Wyoming
and Montana
Phone: 303-236-5730
Fax: 303-236-0459
Local Agencies
Agency Contact Phone/Fax
Coal Bed Methane Coordination Coalition
760 West Fetterman
Buffalo, WY 92824
A coalition made up of Sheridan, Johnson, Campbell, Converse and Carbon County Commissions in the Powder River Basin of WY.
Mickey Steward
CBM Coordinator
Phone: 307-217-0869
B.J. Kristiansen
Asst. CBM Coordinator
Phone: 307-751-4657
Big Horn County Commission
P.O. Box 908
Hardin, MT 59034
Commissioners Phone: 406-665-9700
Fax: 406-665-9706
Powder River County Commission
P.O. Box 270
Broadus, MT 59317
Commissioners Phone: 406-436-2657
Fax: 406-436-2151
Rosebud County Commission
P.O. Box 47
Forsyth, MT 59327
Commissioners Phone: 406-356-2251
Fax: 406-356-7551
Tribal Governments
Agency Contact Phone/Fax
Crow Reservation
Crow Tribe
Box 159 
Crow Agency, MT 59022
Neta Old Elk
Director
Mineral Mining Office
Phone: 406-638-2601
Fax: 406-638-7283
Northern Cheyenne Reservation
Northern Cheyenne Tribe
PO Box 128
Lame Deer, MT 59043
Danny Sioux
Lame Deer Council
Representative
Phone: 406-477-6284
Fax: 406-477-6210
Industry Associations
Agency Contact Phone/Fax
Coal Bed Methane Information, Resources and Engineering Data on Coal Bed Methane  
Coal Bed
Natural Gas Alliance

209 W. Main Street
Kirby, WY 82430
Monica Deromedi Phone: 307-864-2355
Fax: 307-864-2355
Montana Petroleum Association
601 Euclid Avenue
P.O. Box 1186
Helena, MT 59624-1186
Gail Abercrombie Phone: 406-442-7582
Fax: 406-443-7291
Petroleum Association of Wyoming
951 Werner Court
Suite 100
Casper, WY 82601
Tom Clayson Phone: 307-234-5333
Fax: 307-266-2189
Powder River Basin
Resource Council

P.O. Box 6752
Sheridan, WY 82801
Ashley Roberts
 
Phone: 307-672-5809
Fax: 307-672-5800
Wyoming Independent
Producers Association
P.O. Box 2325
Gillette, WY 82717-2325
Karen Kennedy
Executive Director
Phone: 307-686-1081
Fax: 307-686-0560
Citizens' Groups
Organization Contact Phone/Fax
Montana Environmental Information Center
P.O. Box 1184
Helena, MT  59624
Jim Jensen
Executive Director
Phone: 406-443-2520
Fax: 406-443-2507
Northern Plains Resource Council
2401 Montana Ave., #200
Billings, MT 59101
Michael Reisner Phone: 406-248-1154
Fax: 406-248-2110
Mark Fix
Chair NPRC
CBM Committee
Phone: 406-421-5460
Park and Gallatin Citizens' Alliance
P.O. Box 672
Bozeman, MT 59771
Mel Frost Phone: 406-586-1593
Fax: 406-586-0851
Powder River Basin Resource Council
23 N. Scott
Sheridan, WY 82801
Jill Morrison Phone: 307-672-5809
Fax: 307-672-5800
Tongue River Water
Users Association
P.O. Box 5171
Birney, MT 59012
Art Hayes
President
Phone: 406-984-6260
Wyoming Outdoor Council
262 Lincoln Street
Lander, WY 82520
Tom Darin Phone: 307-332-7031
Fax: 307-332-6899