Gov. Josh Green is pledging to help “promptly” establish a procedure to permit construction of a controversial telescope atop Mauna Kea on a site previously developed for observatory use.

Green recently made the commitment in a letter to the organization trying to build the Thirty Meter Telescope after a TMT project manager told a state board in September that it would be helpful to know what’s required to develop the long-planned observatory on a previously disturbed site instead of an undisturbed site where construction was blocked by protesters in 2019.

In an Oct. 24 letter to leaders of the California-based Thirty Meter Telescope International Observatory, Green said he and officials in his administration will work with the Mauna Kea Stewardship and Oversight Authority and the Univer

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