[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 107 (Wednesday, June 4, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32296-32297]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-12978]


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GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

[Notice-MG-2014-02; Docket No. 2014-0002; Sequence 20]


Office of Federal High-Performance Green Buildings; Green 
Building Advisory Committee; Notification of Upcoming Public Advisory 
Committee Meeting and Conference Calls

AGENCY: Office of Government-wide Policy, General Services 
Administration (GSA).

ACTION: Meeting Notice.

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SUMMARY: Notice of this meeting and these conference calls is being 
provided according to the requirements of the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App. 10(a)(2). This notice provides the agenda 
and schedule for the September 10, 2014 meeting of the Green Building 
Advisory Committee Meeting (the Committee) and the schedule for a 
series of conference calls, supplemented by Web meetings, for two task 
groups of the Committee. The meeting is open to the public and the site 
is accessible to individuals with disabilities. The conference calls 
are open for the public to listen in. Interested individuals must 
register to attend as instructed below under SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.

DATES: 
    Meeting date: The meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 10, 
2014, starting at 9:00 a.m. Eastern time, and ending no later than 4:00 
p.m.
    Task group conference call dates: The conference calls will be held 
according to the following schedule:
    The Net Zero task group will hold conference calls every Tuesday 
from June 18, 2014 to July 30, 2014 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. eastern 
daylight time.
    The Building Labels task group will hold conference calls every 
Monday from June 23, 2014 to Aug 4, 2014 from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. 
eastern daylight time.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ken Sandler, Designated Federal 
Officer, Office of Federal High-Performance Green Buildings, Office of 
Government-wide Policy, General Services Administration, 1800 F Street 
NW., Washington, DC 20405, telephone 202-219-1121 (Note: This is not a 
toll-free number). Additional information about the Committee, 
including meeting materials and updates on the task groups and their 
schedules, will be available on-line at http://www.gsa.gov/gbac.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Procedures for Attendance and Public Comment: Contact Ken Sandler 
at [email protected] to register to attend the meeting and/or listen 
in to any or all of these conference calls. To attend the meeting and/
or conference calls, submit your full name, organization, email 
address, and phone number. Requests to attend the September 10, 2014 
meeting must be received by 5:00 p.m. eastern daylight time on Tuesday, 
September 2, 2014. Requests to listen in to the calls must be received 
by 5:00 p.m. Eastern time, Friday, June 20, 2014. (GSA will be unable 
to provide technical assistance to any listener experiencing technical 
difficulties. Testing access to the Web meeting site in advance of 
calls is recommended.)
    Contact Ken Sandler at [email protected] to register to comment 
during the September 10 meeting's public comment period. Registered 
speakers/organizations will be allowed a maximum of 5 minutes each and 
will need to provide written copies of their presentations. Requests to 
comment at the meeting must be received by 5:00 p.m. eastern daylight 
time on Tuesday, September 2, 2014. Written comments also may be 
provided to Mr. Sandler at [email protected] by the same deadline.
    Background: The Administrator of the U.S. General Services 
Administration 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 (42 U.S.C. 17123, or EISA). Under 
this authority, the Committee advises GSA on the rapid transformation 
of the Federal building portfolio to sustainable technologies and 
practices. The Committee focuses primarily on reviewing strategic 
plans, products and activities of the Office of Federal High-
Performance Green Buildings and providing advice regarding how the 
Office can accomplish its mission most effectively.
    The Net Zero task group will further develop the motion of a 
committee member to ``Strengthen net zero energy commitments for new 
and existing

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federal buildings and federal leased buildings'' into a final proposal 
to GSA. The Building Labels task group will develop the motion of a 
committee member to ``Require building performance labels [for federal 
buildings], including current energy and environmental performance'' 
into a final proposal to GSA.
    The conference calls will focus on how the task groups can best 
refine these motions into consensus recommendations of each group to 
the full Committee, which will in turn decide whether to proceed with 
formal advice to GSA based upon these recommendations.

 September 10, 2014 Meeting Agenda

     Welcome & Plans for Today's Meeting.
     New Member Introduction & Orientation.
     Overview of Committee Work and Election of Committee 
Chair.
     Net Zero Federal Buildings.
     Working Lunch.
     Federal Building Performance Labels.
     Putting Research Into Practice, and Steps to Adoption.
     Public Comment Period.
     Closing Comments.

Detailed agendas, background information and updates for the meeting 
and conference calls will be posted on GSA's Web site at http://www.gsa.gov/gbac.
    Meeting Access: The Committee will convene its September 10, 2014 
meeting at the U.S. General Services Administration building, Rooms 
1459-1460, 1800 F Street NW., Washington, DC 20405, and the site is 
accessible to individuals with disabilities.

    Dated: May 29, 2014.
Kevin Kampschroer,
Federal Director, Office of Federal High-Performance Green Buildings, 
General Services Administration.
[FR Doc. 2014-12978 Filed 6-3-14; 8:45 am]
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