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Reporting Fiscal Year 1998 Government Totals



Active Committees 921
Administratively Inactive Committees 18
Number of New Committees 36
Number of Terminated Committees 47
Number of Merged Committees
Committee Authority: Required by Statute 403
Committee Authority: Authorized by Statute 223
Committee Authority: Agency Authority 261
Committee Authority: Presidential Directive 52
Committee Type: Ad Hoc 30
Committee Type: Continuing 909
Committee Type: Presidential 50
Committee Description: National Policy/Issue 162
Committee Description: Non-Scientific 337
Committee Description: Scientific/Technical 224
Committee Description: Grant Review 131
Committee Description: Grant Review Special Emphasis Panel 0
Committee Description: Regulatory Negotiation 10
Committee Description: Other 75
Number of Reports 973
Meetings: Open 2,522
Meetings: Closed 2,937
Closed Grant Review 2,532
Closed Grant Review Special Emphasis Panel 0
Closed All Other Functions 405
Meetings: Partially Closed 393
Total Meetings 5,852
Current Actual Next Estimate
Committee Personnel Payments: Non-Federal Members $ 15,335,725.00 $ 17,611,261.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Federal Members $ 2,488,245.00 $ 2,714,037.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Federal Staff $ 86,348,172.00 $ 90,839,085.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Non-Member Consultants $ 9,180,760.00 $ 10,950,932.00
Committee Total Travel and Per Diem $ 37,208,837.00 $ 44,474,925.00
Committee Other Costs $ 30,044,208.00 $ 29,278,285.00
Committee Total Cost $ 180,605,947.00 $ 195,868,525.00
Federal Staff Support Years (FTE) 1,282.99 1,276.84
Members 41,074
SEP Members 0
Total Members Serving During Fiscal Year 41,074

Note: (1) All Committees (Chartered, Potentially Administratively Inactive and Terminated) are included in this report.
          (2) For FY13 through FY19, does not include WWCC costs/FTE funded by non-U.S. government sources