Divisions and Regions
Central Office Divisions and Programs
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation headquarters are located at 625 Broadway, Albany. In this building you will find most offices of the divisions and special programs. The following is a list of links to all the offices with descriptions of the work we do.
Commissioner Pete Grannis
Stuart Gruskin, Executive Deputy Commissioner
Office of General Counsel
Alison Crocker, Deputy Commissioner and General Counsel
- Environmental Justice
- Program and Regional Counsel
- FOIL (Freedom of Information Law)
Office of Regional Affairs and Permitting
Michael Lenane, Deputy Commissioner
Office of Remediation and Materials Management
Val Washington, Deputy Commissioner
- Division of Environmental Remediation
- Division of Mineral Resources
- Division of Solid & Hazardous Materials
Office of Administration
Jack McKeon, Deputy Commissioner
- Division of Operations
- Division of Information Services
- Division of Management and Budget
- Division of Public Affairs and Education
- Office of Employee Relations
Office of Air Resources, Climate Change & Energy
Jared Snyder, Assistant Commissioner
Office of Public Protection
Henry Hamilton, Assistant Commissioner
- Division of Forest Protection
- Division of Law Enforcement
- Emergency Response Coordination Unit
Office of Natural Resources
Christopher Amato, Assistant Commissioner
Office of Water Resources
James Tierney, Assistant Commissioner
- Division of Water
- Hudson River Estuary Program
- Great Lakes Program
- New York City Watershed
Office of Hearings and Mediation Services
Louis Alexander, Assistant Commissioner
Office of Internal Audit
Thomas Kulzer, Acting Director
Office of Legislative Affairs
Chris Ballantyne, Director
Commissioner's Policy Office
Anne Reynolds, Director
Basil Anastassiou, Director of Communications
Yancey Roy, Director of Public Information
Regional Offices
To obtain or renew a DEC permit, to report environmental or natural resource problems, to find the best places to hunt, fish and enjoy the outdoors, to reach any DEC program for any reason -- your first point of contact is your regional office. The department's nine regional offices bring DEC programs within the reach of all New Yorkers from Long Island to Buffalo. Each DEC region is headed by a regional director and is organized to serve the needs of communities within its boundaries.
You can find your DEC region on the map above, or use the regional offices links below to identify the region that serves your county.
Region 1: Nassau and Suffolk counties
Region 2: Brooklyn, Bronx, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island
Region 3: Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster and Westchester counties
Region 4: Albany, Columbia, Delaware, Greene, Montgomery, Otsego, Rensselaer, Schenectady and Schoharie counties
Region 5: Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Hamilton, Saratoga, Warren and Washington counties
Region 6: Herkimer, Jefferson, Lewis, Oneida and St. Lawrence counties
Region 7: Broome, Cayuga, Chenango, Cortland, Madison, Onondaga, Oswego, Tioga and Tompkins counties
Region 8: Chemung, Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Orleans, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Wayne and Yates counties
Region 9: Allegany, Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Erie, Niagara and Wyoming counties
