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Reporting Fiscal Year 2007 Government Totals



Active Committees 884
Administratively Inactive Committees 40
Number of New Committees 38
Number of Terminated Committees 44
Number of Merged Committees
Committee Authority: Required by Statute 425
Committee Authority: Authorized by Statute 191
Committee Authority: Agency Authority 273
Committee Authority: Presidential Directive 35
Committee Type: Ad Hoc 18
Committee Type: Continuing 906
Committee Type: Presidential 42
Committee Description: National Policy/Issue 132
Committee Description: Non-Scientific 269
Committee Description: Scientific/Technical 219
Committee Description: Grant Review 93
Committee Description: Grant Review Special Emphasis Panel 25
Committee Description: Regulatory Negotiation 1
Committee Description: Other 185
Number of Reports 988
Meetings: Open 2,111
Meetings: Closed 4,541
Closed Grant Review 1,955
Closed Grant Review Special Emphasis Panel 1,997
Closed All Other Functions 589
Meetings: Partially Closed 291
Total Meetings 6,943
Current Actual Next Estimate
Committee Personnel Payments: Non-Federal Members $ 37,741,705.00 $ 38,482,290.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Federal Members $ 2,322,834.00 $ 2,661,981.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Federal Staff $ 159,662,586.00 $ 164,068,806.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Non-Member Consultants $ 13,855,409.00 $ 13,449,696.00
Committee Total Travel and Per Diem $ 58,871,890.00 $ 66,032,382.00
Committee Other Costs $ 77,528,169.00 $ 79,009,943.00
Committee Total Cost $ 349,982,593.00 $ 363,705,098.00
Federal Staff Support Years (FTE) 1,572.77 1,553.40
Members 45,316
SEP Members 19,798
Total Members Serving During Fiscal Year 65,114

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