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Reporting Fiscal Year 2013 Government Totals



Active Committees 999
Administratively Inactive Committees 58
Number of New Committees 45
Number of Terminated Committees 25
Number of Merged Committees
Committee Authority: Required by Statute 563
Committee Authority: Authorized by Statute 197
Committee Authority: Agency Authority 254
Committee Authority: Presidential Directive 43
Committee Type: Ad Hoc 11
Committee Type: Continuing 1,045
Committee Type: Presidential 37
Committee Description: National Policy/Issue 127
Committee Description: Non-Scientific 279
Committee Description: Scientific/Technical 215
Committee Description: Grant Review 92
Committee Description: Grant Review Special Emphasis Panel 27
Committee Description: Regulatory Negotiation 2
Committee Description: Other 315
Number of Reports 572
Meetings: Open 1,771
Meetings: Closed 5,039
Closed Grant Review 2,751
Closed Grant Review Special Emphasis Panel 1,987
Closed All Other Functions 301
Meetings: Partially Closed 298
Total Meetings 7,108
Current Actual Next Estimate
Committee Personnel Payments: Non-Federal Members $ 35,596,913.00 $ 36,862,074.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Federal Members $ 1,878,835.00 $ 2,329,157.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Federal Staff $ 181,901,445.00 $ 188,847,140.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Non-Member Consultants $ 10,536,248.00 $ 11,745,812.00
Committee Total Travel and Per Diem $ 54,055,278.00 $ 57,168,149.00
Committee Other Costs $ 53,650,599.00 $ 54,623,098.00
Committee Total Cost $ 337,619,318.00 $ 351,575,430.00
Federal Staff Support Years (FTE) 1,492.58 1,531.36
Members 45,065
SEP Members 23,626
Total Members Serving During Fiscal Year 68,691

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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