Focus On Planning & Aid
Members of the Small Business Compliance Advisory Panel

This page was last updated October 2021


The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 require each State to prepare a plan for helping small businesses comply with provisions of the Act through the creation of compliance assistance programs. In 1992, Nebraska adopted legislation calling for the creation of the Small Business Compliance Advisory Panel and outlining its responsibilities.





Four members of the Panel are selected by the Legislature and are owners or representatives of small business stationary sources of air emissions.

Currently, these members include:

Jim Hellbusch (Chair)

Duo Lift Mfg. Company, Inc
Columbus, NE
(402) 564-8023
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Boyd Dingman
Dingman’s Collision Centers
Omaha, NE
(402) 502-5511

Jack Schreiner

Bruckman Rubber
Hastings, NE
(402) 463-3129
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Rick Bettger

Omaha Car Care
Omaha, NE
(402) 496-4399
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Two members are selected by the Governor to represent the general public who are not small business owners or representatives of small business stationary sources of air emissions.

Currently, these members include:

Sharon Hueftle

South Central Economic Development District
Holdrege, NE
(308) 455-4770
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Starr Lehl

Scottsbluff Economic Development Director
Scottsbluff, NE
(308) 630-6213
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The NDEE Director appoints one member as the agency representative to the Panel.

The Director’s appointee is:

Shelley Schneider, Administrator, Permitting and Engineering Division
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