[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 240 (Tuesday, December 15, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 77634]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-31485]
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GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
[Notice-MG-2015-06; Docket No. 2015-0002; Sequence No. 7]
Office of Federal High-Performance Green Buildings; Green
Building Advisory Committee; Notification of Upcoming Conference Calls
AGENCY: Office of Government-wide Policy, General Services
Administration (GSA).
ACTION: Meeting notice.
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SUMMARY: Notice of these conference calls is being provided according
to the requirements of the Federal Advisory Committee Act. This notice
provides the schedule for a series of conference calls, supplemented by
Web meetings, for two task groups of the Green Building Advisory
Committee. The conference calls are open for the public to listen in.
Interested individuals must register to attend as instructed below
under Supplementary Information.
DATES: Task group conference call dates: The conference calls will be
held according to the following alternating schedule:
The Energy Use Index task group will hold biweekly conference calls
on Wednesdays beginning January 13, 2016, through April 20, 2016, from
3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).
The Portfolio Prioritization task group will hold biweekly
conference calls on Wednesdays beginning January 20, 2016 through April
27, 2016, from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 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: Contact Mr. Ken Sandler at
[email protected] to register to listen in to any or all of these
conference calls. To attend the conference calls, submit your full
name, organization, email address, and phone number. Requests to listen
in to the calls must be received by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time
(EDT), on Friday, January 9, 2016. (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.)
Background: The Administrator of the U.S. General Services
Administration established the Green Building Advisory Committee with a
notice published in the Federal Register at 76 FR 35894, on June 20,
2011, pursuant to Section 494 of the Energy Independence and Security
Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17123). Under this authority, the Committee
advises GSA on the rapid transformation of the Federal building
portfolio to sustainable technologies and practices. The Committee
reviews strategic plans, products and activities of the Office of
Federal High-Performance Green Buildings, and provides advice regarding
how the Office can accomplish its mission most effectively.
The Portfolio Prioritization task group will continue to pursue the
motion of a committee member to ``propose a process for Federal
agencies to consistently incorporate green building and resilience
requirements into their capital investment criteria and strategies.''
The Energy Use Index task group will continue to pursue the motion of a
committee member to ``develop guidelines for creating a new energy
intensity metric [to reflect impacts of] densified facilities,
centrally located workplace sites . . . and expansion of telework and
hoteling.''
The conference calls will focus on how the task groups can best
refine these motions into consensus recommendations from each group to
the full Committee, which will in turn decide whether to proceed with
formal advice to GSA based upon these recommendations. Additional
background information and updates will be posted on GSA's Web site at
http://www.gsa.gov/gbac.
Kevin Kampschroer,
Federal Director, Office of Federal High-Performance Green Buildings,
General Services Administration.
[FR Doc. 2015-31485 Filed 12-14-15; 8:45 am]
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