Steve Tryon

Steve Tryon is the Director of the Office of Environmental Policy and Compliance (OEPC) at the Department of the Interior. OEPC is the DOI office responsible for policies on compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act (FAST-41), the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), and for operational functions involving cleanup of DOI CERCLA sites, abandoned mines, and oil spill, Hazmat, and disaster response and recovery involving natural and cultural resources. Steve joined OEPC as its Deputy Director in 2019, and became Director in 2020. Before that, he spent nearly 20 years with the Bureau of Land Management, and another seven years with the Department and with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in a combination of field and headquarters-based positions. 

Steve joined the Federal Service in 1993 as Presidential Management Intern. He holds two Master’s degrees from the University of Washington and a Bachelor’s of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.