[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 57 (Friday, March 26, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16210-16211]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-06221]


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GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

[Notice-MG-2021-02; Docket No. 2021-0002; Sequence No. 5]


Office of Federal High-Performance Green Buildings; Green 
Building Advisory Committee; Notification of Upcoming Web-Based 
Meetings

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

ACTION: Notice of public meetings.

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SUMMARY: Notice of these web-based public meetings/conference calls is 
being provided according to the requirements of the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act. This notice provides the schedule for a series of web-
based meetings for two task groups of the Green Building Advisory 
Committee (Committee), as well as one full Committee meeting, which are 
all open to the public. Interested individuals must register to attend 
and provide public comment as instructed below under SUPPLEMENTARY 
INFORMATION.

DATES: The Environmental Justice and Equity for Federal Green Buildings 
Task Group will hold recurring web-based meetings on Tuesdays from 
April 6, 2021, through November 16, 2021, from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., 
Eastern Time (ET).
    The Federal Building Decarbonization Task Group will hold recurring 
web-based meetings on Mondays from April 5, 2021, through November 15, 
2021, from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., ET.
    The Green Building Advisory Committee will hold a web-based meeting 
on Wednesday, June 23, 2021, from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Ken Sandler, Designated Federal 
Officer, Office of Federal High-Performance Green Buildings, Office of 
Government-wide Policy, General Services Administration, 1800 F Street 
NW, (Mail-code: MG), Washington, DC

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20405, at [email protected] or 202-219-1121. Additional information 
about the Committee, including meeting materials and agendas, will be 
available on-line at http://www.gsa.gov/gbac.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Procedures for Attendance and Public Comment

    Contact Dr. Ken Sandler, at [email protected], to register to 
attend any of these public web-based meetings. To register, submit your 
full name, organization, email address, phone number, and which 
meeting(s) you would like to attend. Requests to attend the web-based 
meetings must be received by 5:00 p.m. ET, on Monday, April 5, 2021. 
Meeting call-in information will be provided to interested parties who 
register by the deadline. (GSA will be unable to provide technical 
assistance to any listener experiencing technical difficulties. Testing 
access to the web-based meeting site before the meetings is 
recommended.) Contact Dr. Sandler to register to provide public comment 
during the June 23, 2021 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 provide public comment at the Committee meeting must be 
received by 5:00 p.m., ET, on Monday, June 7, 2021.

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.
    The Environmental Justice and Equity for Federal Green Buildings 
Task Group will identify and propose effective approaches to improve 
environmental justice and equity in federal sustainable building 
processes, enhancing engagement with communities and key partners 
throughout the building lifecycle.
    The Federal Building Decarbonization Task Group will explore 
opportunities and challenges for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, in 
alignment with national climate goals and action plans, through the use 
of renewable energy, energy efficiency, electrification and smart 
building technologies at federal facilities.
    These web-based meetings will allow the task groups to develop 
consensus recommendations for deliberation by the full Committee, which 
will, in turn, decide whether to proceed with formal advice to GSA 
based upon these recommendations.

June 23, 2021 Meeting Agenda

 Updates and introductions
 Energy Storage Task Group: Findings & recommendations
 Environmental Justice and Equity Task Group: Interim findings
 Federal Building Decarbonization Task Group: Interim findings
 Public comment
 Next steps and closing comments

Kevin Kampschroer,
Federal Director, Office of Federal High-Performance Green Buildings, 
Office of Government-wide Policy, General Services Administration.
[FR Doc. 2021-06221 Filed 3-25-21; 8:45 am]
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