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Reporting Fiscal Year 2005 Government Totals



Active Committees 914
Administratively Inactive Committees 31
Number of New Committees 64
Number of Terminated Committees 60
Number of Merged Committees
Committee Authority: Required by Statute 428
Committee Authority: Authorized by Statute 191
Committee Authority: Agency Authority 290
Committee Authority: Presidential Directive 36
Committee Type: Ad Hoc 42
Committee Type: Continuing 903
Committee Type: Presidential 44
Committee Description: National Policy/Issue 127
Committee Description: Non-Scientific 284
Committee Description: Scientific/Technical 217
Committee Description: Grant Review 93
Committee Description: Grant Review Special Emphasis Panel 26
Committee Description: Regulatory Negotiation 4
Committee Description: Other 194
Number of Reports 939
Meetings: Open 2,444
Meetings: Closed 4,584
Closed Grant Review 1,727
Closed Grant Review Special Emphasis Panel 2,430
Closed All Other Functions 427
Meetings: Partially Closed 296
Total Meetings 7,324
Current Actual Next Estimate
Committee Personnel Payments: Non-Federal Members $ 38,599,418.00 $ 40,692,742.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Federal Members $ 4,361,311.00 $ 2,512,151.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Federal Staff $ 149,357,028.00 $ 148,498,880.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Non-Member Consultants $ 13,895,667.00 $ 15,872,308.00
Committee Total Travel and Per Diem $ 62,944,625.00 $ 67,545,241.00
Committee Other Costs $ 63,217,000.00 $ 56,146,243.00
Committee Total Cost $ 332,375,049.00 $ 331,267,565.00
Federal Staff Support Years (FTE) 1,582.51 3,841.89
Members 45,166
SEP Members 21,908
Total Members Serving During Fiscal Year 67,074

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

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