The normally inconspicuous Lane Regional Air Protection Agency is in the limelight as it handles an air pollution permit for the massive proposed parcel-delivery center near the Eugene Airport.

Key questions include: what powers does LRAPA have over this project, and how will it use them? The agency says it has the toughest rules in the state for these kinds of facilities, but the anonymous company pushing the project wants to skirt those rules.

One LRAPA board member — a local environmental activist — has come out strongly against the project. Another — David Loveall, the hard-right member of the Lane County Board of Commissioners — is sharply in favor.

Hundreds of area residents have appealed to LRAPA to kill the project, which is widely assumed to be for Amazon. LRAPA officials say t

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