夏威夷望远镜开启新融资
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The National Science Foundation has launched an informal outreach to Hawaii about possible funding efforts for the stalled Thirty Meter Telescope project.
美国国家科学基金会已经向夏威夷发起了一项非正式的活动，旨在为已经陷入停滞的30米望远镜项目提供更多可能的资金。
The effort by the nation’s top funder of basic research could lead to a huge influx of cash for the astronomy project on Mauna Kea with an estimated cost of $2.4 billion, The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Thursday.
据《檀香山星报》周四报道，美国最大的基础研究资助机构的努力可能会为莫纳克亚山的天文项目带来巨额资金流入，该项目预计将耗资24亿美元。
Funding efforts could also trigger a regulatory process adding two years or more to a construction timeline that is far behind schedule.
融资努力还可能会带来相关的监管程序，而这将使计划的建设时间表延长两年或更长时间。
The project recently announced the start of construction was delayed until spring.
该项目最近宣布将开工时间推迟到了明年春季。
The foundation said in a statement it plans to reach out to “stakeholders, including Native Hawaiians,” to understand their viewpoints.
该基金会在一份声明中说，它计划接触“利益相关者，包括夏威夷土著”，以了解他们的观点。
Protesters blocked the 6.27-mile (10-kilometer) access road to the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii's tallest mountain, in a demonstration against the project from July through December 2019.
2019年7月至12月期间，抗议者封锁了通往夏威夷最高山峰莫纳克亚山顶的长达6.27英里(10公里)的通路，以抗议该项目的推进。
Telescope opponents said the project would desecrate land considered sacred by some Native Hawaiians.
望远镜的反对者说，这个项目会亵渎一些夏威夷土著认为神圣的土地。
The foundation said its outreach would serve as a precursor to a formal federal environmental review process.
该基金会表示，它的推广活动将作为正式联邦环境审查程序的前提活动。
The Thirty Meter Telescope project has teamed with the Giant Magellan Telescope planned in Chile and the U.S. National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory to propose the U.S. Extremely Large Telescope Program.
30米望远镜项目已经与智利计划的巨型麦哲伦望远镜和美国国家光学红外天文研究实验室合作，提出了美国超大望远镜项目。
The partnership, which is partly an effort to obtain additional funding, proposes to offer U.S. astronomers complete viewing coverage of the skies in the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
这项合作计划的部分目的是为了获得更多的资助，它提议为美国天文学家提供对南北半球天空的完整观测。
Thirty Meter Telescope officials recently submitted a planning and design proposal to the science foundation aimed at obtaining major funding for $1 billion added to the project's cost due to construction delays, inflation and other factors.
30米望远镜的官员最近向科学基金会提交了一份规划和设计提案，目的是获得10亿美元的主要资金，以弥补由于建设延迟、通货膨胀和其他因素而增加的项目成本。
Under the proposal, the foundation would contribute $850 million each to the Thirty Meter Telescope and the Giant Magellan Telescope.
根据提议，该基金会将向30米望远镜和巨型麦哲伦望远镜各捐赠8.5亿美元。
Funding approval would trigger the creation of a federal environmental impact statement and National Historic Preservation Act Section 106 consultation, a process of two years or more.
资金的批准将触发联邦环境影响声明和国家历史保护法案第106节咨询的创建，这一过程需要两年或更长时间。
“It will lead to very significant outreach, another opportunity to listen and learn and a renewed opportunity to seek solutions that are acceptable to all in Hawaii,” Michael Bolte, a University of California Santa Cruz astronomy professor and Thirty Meter Telescope board member, said last month.
加州大学圣克鲁斯分校天文学教授、30米望远镜理事会成员迈克尔·博尔特上个月说:“这将带来非常重要的拓展，是倾听和学习的又一个机会，也是寻求夏威夷所有人都能接受的解决方案的新机会。”
Kealoha Pisciotta, leader of the Mauna Kea Hui group that opposes the telescope, said her group and others are prepared to challenge federal environmental documents.
莫纳克亚回组织的领导人皮斯乔塔表示反对该望远镜的建设，她说她的组织和其他组织准备对联邦环境文件提出挑战。
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