Office of Federal High-Performance Buildings; Green Building Advisory Committee; Notification of Upcoming Web-Based Public Meetings, 61322-61323 [2022-21964]

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• General Services Administration

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 195 (Tuesday, October 11, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61322-61323]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[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 [email protected] or 202-219-1121. 
Additional information about the Committee, including meeting materials 
and agendas, will be available on-line at https://www.gsa.gov/gbac.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Procedures for Attendance and Public Comment

    Contact Dr. Ken Sandler at [email protected] 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

 Introductions
 Discussion of new laws and executive orders
 Advisory vote for Committee Chair
 Federal Building Decarbonization task group findings & 
recommendations
 Public comment
 New committee directions & topics to explore
 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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