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Reporting Fiscal Year 2011 Government Totals



Active Committees 1,029
Administratively Inactive Committees 50
Number of New Committees 70
Number of Terminated Committees 26
Number of Merged Committees
Committee Authority: Required by Statute 570
Committee Authority: Authorized by Statute 199
Committee Authority: Agency Authority 266
Committee Authority: Presidential Directive 44
Committee Type: Ad Hoc 27
Committee Type: Continuing 1,052
Committee Type: Presidential 45
Committee Description: National Policy/Issue 132
Committee Description: Non-Scientific 289
Committee Description: Scientific/Technical 215
Committee Description: Grant Review 92
Committee Description: Grant Review Special Emphasis Panel 26
Committee Description: Regulatory Negotiation 3
Committee Description: Other 322
Number of Reports 1,024
Meetings: Open 2,448
Meetings: Closed 4,781
Closed Grant Review 2,517
Closed Grant Review Special Emphasis Panel 1,949
Closed All Other Functions 315
Meetings: Partially Closed 289
Total Meetings 7,518
Current Actual Next Estimate
Committee Personnel Payments: Non-Federal Members $ 40,358,313.00 $ 41,844,577.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Federal Members $ 1,954,777.00 $ 2,488,996.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Federal Staff $ 188,342,083.00 $ 187,145,091.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Non-Member Consultants $ 32,624,010.00 $ 10,477,679.00
Committee Total Travel and Per Diem $ 65,001,322.00 $ 70,973,720.00
Committee Other Costs $ 66,873,868.00 $ 65,093,734.00
Committee Total Cost $ 395,154,373.00 $ 378,023,797.00
Federal Staff Support Years (FTE) 1,569.67 1,554.77
Members 47,762
SEP Members 21,965
Total Members Serving During Fiscal Year 69,727

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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