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Reporting Fiscal Year 2012 Government Totals



Active Committees 998
Administratively Inactive Committees 79
Number of New Committees 25
Number of Terminated Committees 47
Number of Merged Committees
Committee Authority: Required by Statute 569
Committee Authority: Authorized by Statute 195
Committee Authority: Agency Authority 272
Committee Authority: Presidential Directive 41
Committee Type: Ad Hoc 25
Committee Type: Continuing 1,052
Committee Type: Presidential 40
Committee Description: National Policy/Issue 134
Committee Description: Non-Scientific 286
Committee Description: Scientific/Technical 212
Committee Description: Grant Review 91
Committee Description: Grant Review Special Emphasis Panel 27
Committee Description: Regulatory Negotiation 4
Committee Description: Other 323
Number of Reports 841
Meetings: Open 2,063
Meetings: Closed 4,695
Closed Grant Review 2,432
Closed Grant Review Special Emphasis Panel 1,942
Closed All Other Functions 321
Meetings: Partially Closed 270
Total Meetings 7,028
Current Actual Next Estimate
Committee Personnel Payments: Non-Federal Members $ 38,428,215.00 $ 39,821,821.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Federal Members $ 2,598,947.00 $ 2,932,893.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Federal Staff $ 186,410,804.00 $ 187,132,218.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Non-Member Consultants $ 6,531,135.00 $ 6,845,190.00
Committee Total Travel and Per Diem $ 60,340,213.00 $ 65,861,260.00
Committee Other Costs $ 65,129,282.00 $ 66,327,348.00
Committee Total Cost $ 359,438,596.00 $ 368,920,730.00
Federal Staff Support Years (FTE) 1,508.34 1,482.20
Members 47,378
SEP Members 23,224
Total Members Serving During Fiscal Year 70,602

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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