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Reporting Fiscal Year 2002 Government Totals



Active Committees 956
Administratively Inactive Committees 22
Number of New Committees 58
Number of Terminated Committees 42
Number of Merged Committees
Committee Authority: Required by Statute 444
Committee Authority: Authorized by Statute 218
Committee Authority: Agency Authority 265
Committee Authority: Presidential Directive 51
Committee Type: Ad Hoc 29
Committee Type: Continuing 949
Committee Type: Presidential 53
Committee Description: National Policy/Issue 160
Committee Description: Non-Scientific 324
Committee Description: Scientific/Technical 222
Committee Description: Grant Review 101
Committee Description: Grant Review Special Emphasis Panel 27
Committee Description: Regulatory Negotiation 8
Committee Description: Other 136
Number of Reports 759
Meetings: Open 2,080
Meetings: Closed 3,804
Closed Grant Review 1,269
Closed Grant Review Special Emphasis Panel 2,140
Closed All Other Functions 395
Meetings: Partially Closed 368
Total Meetings 6,252
Current Actual Next Estimate
Committee Personnel Payments: Non-Federal Members $ 29,770,878.00 $ 33,731,516.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Federal Members $ 2,593,653.00 $ 2,752,782.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Federal Staff $ 114,180,152.00 $ 120,912,683.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Non-Member Consultants $ 13,133,758.00 $ 13,780,349.00
Committee Total Travel and Per Diem $ 50,541,886.00 $ 61,301,042.00
Committee Other Costs $ 43,597,638.00 $ 46,717,640.00
Committee Total Cost $ 253,817,965.00 $ 279,196,012.00
Federal Staff Support Years (FTE) 1,462.10 1,473.24
Members 39,543
SEP Members 16,775
Total Members Serving During Fiscal Year 56,318

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