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Reporting Fiscal Year 2008 Government Totals



Active Committees 884
Administratively Inactive Committees 38
Number of New Committees 42
Number of Terminated Committees 35
Number of Merged Committees
Committee Authority: Required by Statute 416
Committee Authority: Authorized by Statute 191
Committee Authority: Agency Authority 282
Committee Authority: Presidential Directive 33
Committee Type: Ad Hoc 23
Committee Type: Continuing 899
Committee Type: Presidential 40
Committee Description: National Policy/Issue 127
Committee Description: Non-Scientific 269
Committee Description: Scientific/Technical 220
Committee Description: Grant Review 91
Committee Description: Grant Review Special Emphasis Panel 25
Committee Description: Regulatory Negotiation 3
Committee Description: Other 187
Number of Reports 886
Meetings: Open 1,932
Meetings: Closed 4,494
Closed Grant Review 2,168
Closed Grant Review Special Emphasis Panel 1,968
Closed All Other Functions 358
Meetings: Partially Closed 275
Total Meetings 6,701
Current Actual Next Estimate
Committee Personnel Payments: Non-Federal Members $ 37,698,465.00 $ 39,675,071.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Federal Members $ 2,127,076.00 $ 2,455,242.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Federal Staff $ 165,631,498.00 $ 170,073,442.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Non-Member Consultants $ 13,999,741.00 $ 14,682,807.00
Committee Total Travel and Per Diem $ 58,420,604.00 $ 65,340,063.00
Committee Other Costs $ 65,011,328.00 $ 69,328,343.00
Committee Total Cost $ 342,888,712.00 $ 361,554,968.00
Federal Staff Support Years (FTE) 1,517.78 1,538.93
Members 44,639
SEP Members 19,173
Total Members Serving During Fiscal Year 63,812

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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