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Reporting Fiscal Year 1999 Government Totals



Active Committees 933
Administratively Inactive Committees 18
Number of New Committees 58
Number of Terminated Committees 31
Number of Merged Committees
Committee Authority: Required by Statute 403
Committee Authority: Authorized by Statute 226
Committee Authority: Agency Authority 271
Committee Authority: Presidential Directive 51
Committee Type: Ad Hoc 33
Committee Type: Continuing 918
Committee Type: Presidential 48
Committee Description: National Policy/Issue 163
Committee Description: Non-Scientific 344
Committee Description: Scientific/Technical 222
Committee Description: Grant Review 105
Committee Description: Grant Review Special Emphasis Panel 28
Committee Description: Regulatory Negotiation 14
Committee Description: Other 75
Number of Reports 1,025
Meetings: Open 2,437
Meetings: Closed 3,346
Closed Grant Review 1,100
Closed Grant Review Special Emphasis Panel 1,827
Closed All Other Functions 419
Meetings: Partially Closed 400
Total Meetings 6,183
Current Actual Next Estimate
Committee Personnel Payments: Non-Federal Members $ 17,089,439.00 $ 21,802,467.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Federal Members $ 2,380,065.00 $ 2,495,201.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Federal Staff $ 91,880,668.00 $ 95,573,416.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Non-Member Consultants $ 14,289,017.00 $ 11,072,416.00
Committee Total Travel and Per Diem $ 42,548,663.00 $ 50,064,183.00
Committee Other Costs $ 29,337,903.00 $ 33,050,442.00
Committee Total Cost $ 197,525,755.00 $ 214,058,125.00
Federal Staff Support Years (FTE) 1,400.46 1,311.59
Members 36,648
SEP Members 13,012
Total Members Serving During Fiscal Year 49,660

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