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Reporting Fiscal Year 2015 Government Totals



Active Committees 1,009
Administratively Inactive Committees 56
Number of New Committees 42
Number of Terminated Committees 34
Number of Merged Committees
Committee Authority: Required by Statute 595
Committee Authority: Authorized by Statute 183
Committee Authority: Agency Authority 245
Committee Authority: Presidential Directive 42
Committee Type: Ad Hoc 14
Committee Type: Continuing 1,050
Committee Type: Presidential 40
Committee Description: National Policy/Issue 138
Committee Description: Non-Scientific 288
Committee Description: Scientific/Technical 213
Committee Description: Grant Review 91
Committee Description: Grant Review Special Emphasis Panel 26
Committee Description: Regulatory Negotiation 4
Committee Description: Other 305
Number of Reports 549
Meetings: Open 1,917
Meetings: Closed 5,479
Closed Grant Review 2,979
Closed Grant Review Special Emphasis Panel 2,090
Closed All Other Functions 410
Meetings: Partially Closed 346
Total Meetings 7,742
Current Actual Next Estimate
Committee Personnel Payments: Non-Federal Members $ 37,367,022.00 $ 38,893,608.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Federal Members $ 2,039,967.00 $ 2,324,499.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Federal Staff $ 207,373,943.00 $ 210,197,217.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Non-Member Consultants $ 12,791,534.00 $ 12,962,146.00
Committee Total Travel and Per Diem $ 54,702,775.00 $ 60,942,921.00
Committee Other Costs $ 57,241,860.00 $ 59,490,358.00
Committee Total Cost $ 371,517,102.00 $ 384,810,750.00
Federal Staff Support Years (FTE) 1,594.13 1,619.07
Members 48,233
SEP Members 23,514
Total Members Serving During Fiscal Year 71,747

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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