# Demetria Kimbrough Demetria Kimbrough, MPH, is Deputy Director of the DEQ Office of Air Quality (signature block: "Deputy Director, E&E | Environmental Quality | Air Quality"). She is the central state figure in the AVAIO/Project Leo air pre-permitting record: she hosted the 2025-10-30 pre-application meeting, ran the February–March 2026 "emergency generators" threads, and authored the two statements that define DEQ's posture — "There may be a path forward with permitting 'Tier IV equivalent' emergency engines through Title V permitting" (2026-03-19) and the citation of 40 CFR 60.4211(g)(3) "for T5 permitting of the Tier 4 engines with SCR controls and diesel particulate filter ('Tier 4 Equivalent')" (2026-03-23). ## Role and affiliations Deputy Director, Office of Air Quality, Division of Environmental Quality (DEE). 501-682-0927. ## Appearances in the corpus - [[AVAIO Emergency Generator Pre-Permitting Correspondence]] — convener of the 10/30/25 pre-app ("the facility provided that they would install 62 emergency diesel backup generators"); author of the Title V path and §60.4211(g)(3) emails. - [[AVAIO Tier 4 Equivalent Email to the Commerce Secretary]] — receives the Neil request from Secretary Khoury ("Thoughts?") within 48 hours of its sending. - [[Project Pyramid Title V Air Permit (2507-AOP-R0)]] — named in the SEEK/PDS production as a permit-office principal. ## Notes Her staff in these threads: Thomas Rheaume (Managing Engineer), Golly Easterly, Paula Parker, Karen Cerney, John Mazurkiewicz, Erika Droke, [[Shawn Hutchings]] (Groot permit engineer).