83 FR 25003 - Office of Federal High-Performance Buildings; Green Building Advisory Committee; Notification of Upcoming Conference Calls

GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 105 (May 31, 2018)

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 agendas and schedules for the September 27, 2018 meeting of the Green Building Advisory Committee (the Committee), as well as the schedule for a series of conference calls for a task group of the Committee.

[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 105 (Thursday, May 31, 2018)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2018-11707]


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GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

[Notice-MG-2018-01; Docket No. 2018-0002; Sequence No. 13]


Office of Federal High-Performance 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 this meeting and these conference calls is being 
provided according to the requirements of the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act. This notice provides the agendas and schedules for the 
September 27, 2018 meeting of the Green Building Advisory Committee 
(the Committee), as well as the schedule for a series of conference 
calls for a task group of the Committee.

DATES: Meeting date: The fall meeting of the Committee will be held on 
Thursday, September 27, 2018, starting at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight 
Time (EDT), and ending no later than 4:00 p.m. EDT.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 1800 F Street NW, Washington, DC 
20405, Room 1151. The in-person meeting is open to the public and the 
site is accessible to individuals with disabilities. The task group 
conference calls are open for the public to listen in. Interested 
individuals must register to attend as instructed below under 
Supplementary Information.
    The Building and Grid Integration Task Group will hold recurring, 
weekly conference calls on Wednesdays beginning June 27, 2018, through 
November 14, 2018, from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., EDT.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Ken Sandler, Designated Federal 
Officer, Office of Federal High-Performance Buildings, Office of 
Government-wide Policy, 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 agendas, will be available on-line at http://www.gsa.gov/gbac.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Procedures for Attendance and Public Comment: Contact Mr. Ken 
Sandler at [email protected] to register to attend the in-person 
meeting or listen to any of these conference calls. To attend any of 
these events, submit your full name, organization, email address, and 
phone number, and which you would like to attend. Requests to attend 
the conference calls must be received by 5:00 p.m. EDT, on Monday, June 
25, 2018. (GSA will be unable to provide technical assistance to any 
listener experiencing technical difficulties. Testing access to the Web 
meeting site before the calls is recommended.) Requests to attend the 
September 27, 2018 meeting must be received by 5:00 p.m., EDT, on 
Friday, August 31, 2018.
    Contact Mr. Sandler to register to comment during the September 27, 
2018 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, August 31, 
2018. Written comments may be provided to Mr. Sandler 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 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 new Building and Grid Integration Task Group is pursuing the 
goal to develop recommendations on the integration of federal buildings 
with the electrical grid to enhance resilience, provide savings of both 
energy and cost, and facilitate distributed energy generation, 
including renewable sources.
    The conference calls will allow the task group to develop consensus 
recommendations to the full Committee, which will, in turn, decide 
whether to proceed with formal advice to GSA based upon these 
recommendations.

September 27, 2018 Meeting Agenda

 Updates and Introductions
 Building-grid integration task group update
 Lunchtime speaker (TBD)
 Election for Committee Chair
 Identifying new topic areas to pursue
 Next steps

    Dated: May 25, 2018.
Kevin Kampschroer,
Federal Director, Office of Federal High-Performance Buildings, General 
Services Administration.
[FR Doc. 2018-11707 Filed 5-30-18; 8:45 am]
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