Office of Federal High-Performance Green Buildings; Green Building Advisory Committee; Notification of Upcoming Public Meetings, 66450-66451 [2023-20967]

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• General Services Administration

[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 186 (Wednesday, September 27, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66450-66451]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-20967]


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GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

[Notice-MG-2023-03; Docket No. 2023-0002; Sequence No. 34]


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 one 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 
Federal Building Decarbonization Task Group (the Task Group).
    The meetings are open to the public to observe; online attendees 
are required to register in advance to attend as instructed below.

DATES: The Committee's hybrid meeting will be held Thursday, November 
2, 2023, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Eastern Time (ET). In addition, the 
Committee's Federal Building Decarbonization Task Group will continue 
to hold a series of web-based meetings on consecutive Mondays from 
October 16, 2023 to October 30, 2023 and alternative Mondays from 
November 13, 2023 through February 26, 2024, from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m., 
Eastern Time (ET). This is a continuation of a series of meetings 
previously announced in 87 FR 61322 (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/10/11/2022-21964/office-of-federal-high-performance-buildings-green-building-advisory-committee-notification-of).

ADDRESSES: GSA Headquarters, 1800 F Street NW, Washington, DC 20405.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Michael Bloom, 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 [email protected] or 312-805-6799. Additional

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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 register to attend the November 2nd meeting as a public 
observer, please send the following information via email to 
[email protected]: your first and last name, organization and email address 
and whether you would like to provide public comment. Requests to 
observe the November 2nd, 2023 meeting must be received by 12 p.m. ET, 
on Monday, October 30, 2023 to receive the meeting information.
    Requests to observe the full series of Task Group meetings must be 
received by 5 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 Mr. 
Bloom at [email protected] at least five 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 2nd Meeting Agenda

 Welcome
 Introductions
 Task Group Presentations, Recommendations and Vote (as needed)
    [cir] Federal Building Decarbonization
    [cir] Green Leasing
 Working Lunch with Speaker
 Discussion of Next Potential Committee Topics
 Public Comments
 Adjourn

Green Building Advisory Committee

Federal Building Decarbonization Task Group

    The Federal Building Decarbonization Task Group will work to 
develop recommendations to the full Committee to propose to GSA, to 
prioritize federal building decarbonization strategies. This phase of 
the Task Group builds on the findings of the first two phases of this 
Task Group with a deeper investigation of issues related to beneficial 
federal building electrification.

Kevin Kampschroer,
Federal Director, Office of Federal High-Performance Green Buildings, 
General Services Administration.
[FR Doc. 2023-20967 Filed 9-26-23; 8:45 am]
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