Notice2022-21964
Office of Federal High-Performance Buildings; Green Building Advisory Committee; Notification of Upcoming Web-Based Public Meetings
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Published
October 11, 2022
Issuing agencies
General Services Administration
Abstract
In accordance with the requirements of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, this notice provides the agenda for the Wednesday, November 9, 2022 Web-based meeting of the Green Building Advisory Committee (the Committee) and the next series of Web-based meetings of the Committee's Federal Building Decarbonization Task Group (the Task Group). All meetings are open for the public to observe. Interested individuals must register to attend as instructed below.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 195 (Tuesday, October 11, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61322-61323]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-21964]
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GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
[Notice-MG-2022-04; Docket No. 2022-0002; Sequence No. 25]
Office of Federal High-Performance Buildings; Green Building
Advisory Committee; Notification of Upcoming Web-Based Public Meetings
AGENCY: Office of Government-wide Policy, General Services
Administration (GSA).
ACTION: Meeting notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the requirements of the Federal Advisory
Committee Act, this notice provides the agenda for the Wednesday,
November 9, 2022 Web-based meeting of the Green Building Advisory
Committee (the Committee) and the next series of Web-based meetings of
the Committee's Federal Building Decarbonization Task Group (the Task
Group). All meetings are open for the public to observe. Interested
individuals must register to attend as instructed below.
DATES: The Committee's Web-based meeting will be held on Wednesday,
November 9, 2022, from 11:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Eastern time (ET). The
Task Group will hold its next series of Web-based meetings on Mondays
from December 5, 2022, through September 25, 2023, from 3:00 p.m. to
4:00 p.m., Eastern Time (ET).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Ken Sandler, Designated Federal
Officer, Office of Federal High-Performance Buildings, Office of
Government-wide Policy, GSA, 1800 F Street NW, (Mail-code: MG),
Washington, DC 20405, at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#58333d36762b39363c343d2a183f2b39763f372e"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a2c9c7cc8cd1c3ccc6cec7d0e2c5d1c38cc5cdd4">[email protected]</span></a> or 202-219-1121.
Additional information about the Committee, including meeting materials
and agendas, will be available on-line at <a href="http://www.gsa.gov/gbac">http://www.gsa.gov/gbac</a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Procedures for Attendance and Public Comment
Contact Dr. Ken Sandler at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b6ddd3d898c5d7d8d2dad3c4f6d1c5d798d1d9c0"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="fa919f94d4899b949e969f88ba9d899bd49d958c">[email protected]</span></a> or 202-219-1121 to
register to attend the Committee meeting and/or the recurring Task
Group meetings. To attend, submit your full name, organization, email
address, and phone number, and which meetings you would like to
observe. Requests to attend the Committee meeting must be received by
5:00 p.m. ET, on Monday, October 31, 2022. Requests to attend the full
series of Task Group meetings must be received by 5:00 p.m. ET, on
Wednesday, November 30, 2022. After that time, requests to attend
ongoing Task Group meetings must be received by 5:00 p.m. ET on the
Monday before the meeting in question. Since Task Group meetings are
conducted as a series, it will generally be most useful to attend them
in order (GSA will be unable to provide technical assistance to any
listener experiencing technical difficulties. Testing access to the Web
meeting site before the calls is recommended.)
Contact Dr. Sandler to register to comment during the Committee
meeting public comment period. Registered speakers/organizations will
be allowed a maximum of five minutes each and will need to provide
written copies of their presentations. Requests to comment at the
Committee meeting must be received by 5:00 p.m., ET, on Monday, October
31, 2022. Time will also be provided at Task Group meetings for public
comment. To request an accommodation, such as closed captioning, or to
ask about accessibility, please contact Dr. Sandler at least 10
business days prior to the meeting to give GSA as much time as possible
to process the request.
Background
The Administrator of GSA established the Committee on June 20, 2011
(Federal Register/Vol. 76, No. 118) pursuant to Section 494 of the
Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA, 42 U.S.C. 17123).
Under this authority, the Committee provides independent policy advice
and recommendations to GSA to advance federal building innovations in
planning, design, and operations to reduce costs, enable agency
missions, enhance human health and performance, and minimize
environmental impacts.
November 9, 2022 Meeting Agenda
<bullet> Introductions
<bullet> Discussion of new laws and executive orders
<bullet> Advisory vote for Committee Chair
<bullet> Federal Building Decarbonization task group findings &
recommendations
<bullet> Public comment
<bullet> New committee directions & topics to explore
<bullet> Next steps and closing comments
The next phase of the Federal Building Decarbonization Task Group
will build on the findings of the first two phases of this Task Group
with a deeper investigation of issues related to beneficial federal
building electrification.
The purpose of these Web-based meetings is for the Task Group to
develop consensus recommendations for submission to the full Committee.
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The Committee will, in turn, deliberate on the Task Group
recommendations and decide whether to proceed with formal advice to GSA
based upon them.
Lois D. Mandell,
Director, Regulatory Secretariat Division, Office of Government-wide
Policy, General Services Administration.
[FR Doc. 2022-21964 Filed 10-7-22; 8:45 am]
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