Office of Federal High-Performance Green Buildings; Green Building Advisory Committee; Notification of Upcoming Public Meetings, 26311 [2023-08769]

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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 82 (Friday, April 28, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 26311]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-08769]


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GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

[Notice-MG-2023-01; Docket No. 2023-0002; Sequence No. 14]


Office of Federal High-Performance Green Buildings; Green 
Building Advisory Committee; Notification of Upcoming 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 an in-person and 
Web-based (hybrid) meeting of the Green Building Advisory Committee 
(the Committee) and a series of Web-based meetings of the Committee's 
new Green Leasing Task Group (the Task Group). The in-person meeting is 
open to the public and the site is accessible to individuals with 
disabilities. All meetings are open for the public to observe; online 
attendees are required, and in-person attendees are encouraged to 
register in advance to attend as instructed below.

DATES: The Committee's hybrid meeting will be held Wednesday, May 10, 
2023, online and in-person from 10:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Central Time 
(11:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Eastern Time) at the Minneapolis Marriott City 
Center, 30 South 7th Street Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 55402. In 
addition, the Committee's Green Leasing Task Group will hold a series 
of Web-based meetings on alternate Thursdays from May 18, 2023, through 
December 14, 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 Green Buildings, Office of 
Government-wide Policy, GSA, 1800 F Street NW, (Mail-code: MG), 
Washington, DC 20405, at 202-219-1121, or at [email protected]. Additional 
information about the Committee, including meeting materials and 
agendas, will be made available on-line at https://www.gsa.gov/gbac.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Procedures for Attendance and Public Comment

    To obtain information on observing any or all of these meetings, 
please follow the instructions on the Committee website at: https://www.gsa.gov/governmentwide-initiatives/federal-highperformance-green-buildings/policy/green-building-advisory-committee/advisory-committee-meetings. Registrants will be asked to provide your full name, 
organization and email address, which meetings you would like to 
observe, and, for the hybrid May 10, 2023 meeting, whether you plan to 
attend in-person or online, and whether you would like to provide 
public comment. Requests to observe the May 10, 2023 meeting virtually 
must be received by 5:00 p.m. ET, on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 in order to 
receive the meeting information. Registration for in-person attendance 
is highly encouraged.
    Requests to observe the full series of Task Group meetings must be 
received by 5:00 p.m. ET, on Monday, May 15, 2023. After that time, 
requests to observe 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 be most useful to 
observe all or most of them from the start.
    For all online meetings, Web meeting attendance information will be 
provided following registration. Time will be provided at all meetings 
for public comment wherever possible.
    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. To request an accommodation, such 
as closed captioning, or to ask about accessibility, please contact Dr. 
Sandler at [email protected] 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.

May 10, 2023 Meeting Agenda

 Introductions
 GSA Updates
 Federal Building Decarbonization Task Group Update
 Federal Green Leasing:
[cir] The Challenge and Proposed Plans
[cir] Public Discussion: How to Engage the Commercial Building Market?
 Additional Public Comment and Closing Comments

Green Leasing Task Group

    The Green Leasing Task Group will explore and recommend approaches 
to help GSA meet federal requirements for net zero greenhouse gas 
emissions in its leasing of space in privately-owned commercial 
buildings for federal use.
    The purpose of these Web-based meetings is for the Task Group to 
develop consensus recommendations for submission to the full Committee. 
The Committee will, in turn, deliberate on the Task Group 
recommendations and decide whether to proceed with formal advice to GSA 
based upon them.

Kevin Kampschroer,
Federal Director, Office of Federal High-Performance Green Buildings, 
General Services Administration.
[FR Doc. 2023-08769 Filed 4-27-23; 8:45 am]
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