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Reporting Fiscal Year 2004 Government Totals



Active Committees 956
Administratively Inactive Committees 27
Number of New Committees 66
Number of Terminated Committees 99
Number of Merged Committees
Committee Authority: Required by Statute 461
Committee Authority: Authorized by Statute 206
Committee Authority: Agency Authority 279
Committee Authority: Presidential Directive 37
Committee Type: Ad Hoc 28
Committee Type: Continuing 955
Committee Type: Presidential 48
Committee Description: National Policy/Issue 155
Committee Description: Non-Scientific 306
Committee Description: Scientific/Technical 217
Committee Description: Grant Review 100
Committee Description: Grant Review Special Emphasis Panel 26
Committee Description: Regulatory Negotiation 6
Committee Description: Other 173
Number of Reports 1,016
Meetings: Open 2,104
Meetings: Closed 4,543
Closed Grant Review 1,713
Closed Grant Review Special Emphasis Panel 2,391
Closed All Other Functions 439
Meetings: Partially Closed 353
Total Meetings 7,000
Current Actual Next Estimate
Committee Personnel Payments: Non-Federal Members $ 38,176,394.00 $ 38,719,836.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Federal Members $ 2,347,423.00 $ 2,285,642.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Federal Staff $ 131,145,180.00 $ 136,462,278.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Non-Member Consultants $ 14,709,913.00 $ 11,467,349.00
Committee Total Travel and Per Diem $ 62,066,597.00 $ 65,942,073.00
Committee Other Costs $ 54,712,502.00 $ 55,815,959.00
Committee Total Cost $ 303,158,009.00 $ 310,693,137.00
Federal Staff Support Years (FTE) 1,514.61 8,514.95
Members 44,898
SEP Members 20,437
Total Members Serving During Fiscal Year 65,335

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