80 FR 29003 - Office of Federal High-Performance Green Buildings; Green Building Advisory Committee; Notification of Upcoming Conference Calls

GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 97 (May 20, 2015)

Notice of 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 schedule for a series of conference calls, supplemented by Web meetings, for two task groups of the Committee. The conference calls are open for the public to listen in. Interested individuals must register to attend as instructed below under SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 97 (Wednesday, May 20, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29003-29004]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-12210]


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GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

[Notice-MG-2015-03; Docket No. 2015-0002; Sequence No. 14]


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, 5 U.S.C. 
App. 10(a)(2). This notice provides the schedule for a series of 
conference calls, supplemented by Web meetings, for two task groups of 
the 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 schedule:
    The Portfolio Prioritization task group will hold conference calls 
on Mondays as needed from June 8, 2015 to September 28, 2015 from 11:00 
a.m. to 12:00 p.m., Eastern Daylight time.
    The Energy Use Index task group will hold conference calls on 
Mondays as needed from June 8, 2015 to September 28, 2015 from 3:00 
p.m. to 4:00 p.m., Eastern Daylight time.

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 on Thursday, June 4, 2015. (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 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 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-

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Performance Green Buildings and provides advice regarding how the 
Office can accomplish its mission most effectively.
    The Portfolio Prioritization task group is pursuing the motion of 
two committee members 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 is pursuing 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.''
    Both groups have met previously and had their work endorsed by the 
full Committee at its April 23, 2015 meeting. The conference calls will 
focus on how the task groups can further refine these motions into 
final 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. Additional background information and 
updates will be posted on GSA's Web site at http://www.gsa.gov/gbac.

    Dated: May 14, 2015.
Kevin Kampschroer,
Federal Director, Office of Federal High-Performance Green Buildings, 
General Services Administration.
[FR Doc. 2015-12210 Filed 5-19-15; 8:45 am]
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