{"id":99720,"date":"2019-07-10T13:18:30","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T23:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=99720"},"modified":"2019-07-10T14:01:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T00:01:49","slug":"tmt-construction-set-to-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/07\/10\/tmt-construction-set-to-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"Thirty Meter Telescope\">TMT<\/abbr> construction set to begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/uh-maunakea-feature.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/uh-maunakea-feature.jpg\" alt=\"Maunakea\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-35129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/uh-maunakea-feature.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/uh-maunakea-feature-260x146.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gov. David Ige and the Thirty Meter Telescope International Observatory announced on July 10 that construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (<abbr title=\"Thirty Meter Telescope\">TMT<\/abbr>) will begin next week. The Department of Transportation announced lane and road closures associated with large equipment movement that could begin July 15.<\/p>\n<p><abbr>TMT<\/abbr> will be constructed on <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>-managed lands on Maunakea located in the conservation district regulated by the Board of Land and Natural Resources. On June 19, 2019, the state Department of Land and Natural Resources (<abbr title=\"Department of Land and Natural Resources\">DLNR<\/abbr>) issued a notice to proceed to <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Hilo for the <abbr>TMT<\/abbr> project. The permit was issued after <abbr>DLNR<\/abbr> confirmed the completion of the pre-construction conditions and mitigation measures required of the project in the Conservation District Use Permit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/governor.hawaii.gov\/newsroom\/latest-news\/governors-office-joint-news-release-thirty-meter-telescope-set-to-start-construction\/\">Read more at the governor&#8217;s office website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Ige announced construction will start on the Thirty Meter Telescope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1193,814],"tags":[35,659,305,1053,14],"class_list":["post-99720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-maunakea","tag-institute-for-astronomy","tag-maunakea","tag-office-of-mauna-kea-management","tag-tmt","tag-uh-hilo","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99720"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99727,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99720\/revisions\/99727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}