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Reporting Fiscal Year 2014 Government Totals



Active Committees 990
Administratively Inactive Committees 61
Number of New Committees 23
Number of Terminated Committees 26
Number of Merged Committees
Committee Authority: Required by Statute 576
Committee Authority: Authorized by Statute 190
Committee Authority: Agency Authority 242
Committee Authority: Presidential Directive 43
Committee Type: Ad Hoc 14
Committee Type: Continuing 1,037
Committee Type: Presidential 37
Committee Description: National Policy/Issue 133
Committee Description: Non-Scientific 280
Committee Description: Scientific/Technical 214
Committee Description: Grant Review 90
Committee Description: Grant Review Special Emphasis Panel 26
Committee Description: Regulatory Negotiation 2
Committee Description: Other 306
Number of Reports 674
Meetings: Open 1,829
Meetings: Closed 5,151
Closed Grant Review 2,794
Closed Grant Review Special Emphasis Panel 2,029
Closed All Other Functions 328
Meetings: Partially Closed 257
Total Meetings 7,237
Current Actual Next Estimate
Committee Personnel Payments: Non-Federal Members $ 33,189,712.00 $ 35,098,486.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Federal Members $ 1,404,340.00 $ 3,797,100.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Federal Staff $ 194,438,377.00 $ 194,606,587.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Non-Member Consultants $ 7,790,051.00 $ 8,586,264.00
Committee Total Travel and Per Diem $ 50,884,229.00 $ 56,673,221.00
Committee Other Costs $ 52,007,632.00 $ 55,462,956.00
Committee Total Cost $ 339,714,341.00 $ 354,224,614.00
Federal Staff Support Years (FTE) 1,523.73 1,530.23
Members 45,076
SEP Members 22,790
Total Members Serving During Fiscal Year 67,866

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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