[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 52 (Monday, March 20, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14365-14366]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-05416]
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GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
[Notice-MG-2017-01; Docket No. 2017-0002; Sequence No. 2]
Office of Federal High-Performance Green Buildings; Green
Building Advisory Committee; Notification of Upcoming Public Committee
Meeting and Conference Calls
AGENCY: Office of Government-wide Policy (OGP), 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. This notice provides the agenda and schedule for the
June 7, 2017 meeting of the Green Building Advisory Committee (the
Committee) and schedule for a series of conference calls, supplemented
by Web meetings, for two new 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 Wednesday, June 7,
2017, starting at 9:00 a.m., Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), and ending no
later than 3:30 p.m., EDT.
Task group conference call dates: The conference calls will be held
according to the following schedule:
The High Performance Building Adoption task group will hold
recurring, weekly conference calls on Thursdays beginning April 6
through July 20, 2017 from 3:00 p.m., EDT to 4:00 p.m., EDT.
The Health and Wellness task group will hold recurring, weekly
conference calls on Wednesdays beginning April 5 through July 19, 2017
from 11:00 a.m., EDT, to 12:00 p.m., EDT.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Ken Sandler, Designated Federal
Officer, Office of Federal High-Performance Green Buildings, OGP, GSA,
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 Mr. Ken
Sandler at
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[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, and which you would like to attend. Requests to
attend the June 7, 2017 meeting must be received by 5:00 p.m., EDT, on
Friday, May 26, 2017. Requests to listen in to the conference calls
must be received by 5:00 p.m., EDT, on Tuesday, April 4, 2017. (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 June 7, 2017 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 meeting must be received by 5:00 p.m., EDT,
on Friday, May 26, 2017. Written comments also may be provided to Mr.
Sandler at [email protected] by the same deadline.
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 increase the economic and
operational performance of the federal building portfolio and its
positive impact on organizational effectiveness, human health and
wellbeing.
The Committee has recently proposed two new task groups. The High
Performance Building Adoption task group will pursue the motion of a
committee member to provide recommendations to ``accelerate the
adoption of high performance [Federal] buildings.'' The Health and
Wellness task group will pursue the motion of a committee member to
``develop guidelines to integrate health and wellness features into
government facilities programs.''
The conference calls will allow the task groups to coordinate the
development of consensus recommendations to the full Committee, which
will, in turn, decide whether to proceed with formal advice to GSA
based upon these recommendations.
June 7, 2017 Meeting Agenda:
Welcome, Introductions, Updates & Plans for Today
High Performance Building Adoption: Task Group Report &
Discussion
Working Lunch (with Presentation)
Health and Wellness: Task Group Report & Discussion
Topics Proposed by Committee Members
Public Comment Period
Closing comments
Adjourn
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 June 7, 2017 meeting
at GSA, Room 1153, 1800 F Street NW., Washington DC 20405, and the site
is accessible to individuals with disabilities.
Dated: March 13, 2017.
Kevin Kampschroer,
Federal Director, Office of Federal High-Performance Green Buildings,
General Services Administration.
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