# Mark Allison Mark Allison ([email protected], 501-978-9903) is the [[Wright Lindsey & Jennings LLP]] attorney representing AVAIO in the Project Leo air pre-permitting discussions. He brokered the AVAIO–DEQ meetings of February–March 2026 and, on 2026-02-10, forwarded Tom Nesel's post-meeting argument that NERC EEA-1/2/3 events should count as "System Emergencies" (attaching the new NSPS KKKKa rule) — the legal framing for running "emergency" generators during ESA-mandated curtailment. ## Role and affiliations Attorney, Wright, Lindsey & Jennings LLP, 200 West Capitol Avenue, Suite 2300, Little Rock — AVAIO's Arkansas regulatory counsel in this record. ## Appearances in the corpus - [[AVAIO Emergency Generator Pre-Permitting Correspondence]] — meeting broker; author of the NERC-EEA forward; invited to DEQ's internal legal-room session of 2026-03-05. ## Notes The local-counsel layer between AVAIO's Stamford principals and the DEQ permit office.