# Ryan Grandgenett Permit Engineer in DEQ's Office of Water Quality (Permits Branch) who processed [[GROOT LLC]]'s water STAA (`HQ8-37PE-4XGZZ`) for the West Memphis / Project Pyramid site through 2025. He drove the signatory-authority question that produced a Tier-1 link between [[Michael Montfort]] and Groot LLC. ## Role and affiliations - DEQ Office of Water Quality, Permits Branch (North Little Rock); t: 501.682.0988. ## Appearances in the corpus - [[Groot STAA Signatory and Section 401 Gating Correspondence]] — required confirmation that Groot's Responsible Official "works at the legal applicant (Groot LLC) and has decision making authority," then confirmed "we were able to find proof of Mr. Montfort's position in the Arkansas Secretary of State database"; held STAA issuance pending the § 401 certification. ## Notes