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Reporting Fiscal Year 2016 Government Totals



Active Committees 1,006
Administratively Inactive Committees 56
Number of New Committees 40
Number of Terminated Committees 17
Number of Merged Committees
Committee Authority: Required by Statute 597
Committee Authority: Authorized by Statute 183
Committee Authority: Agency Authority 241
Committee Authority: Presidential Directive 41
Committee Type: Ad Hoc 13
Committee Type: Continuing 1,048
Committee Type: Presidential 37
Committee Description: National Policy/Issue 142
Committee Description: Non-Scientific 283
Committee Description: Scientific/Technical 211
Committee Description: Grant Review 90
Committee Description: Grant Review Special Emphasis Panel 28
Committee Description: Regulatory Negotiation 5
Committee Description: Other 303
Number of Reports 668
Meetings: Open 2,079
Meetings: Closed 5,748
Closed Grant Review 3,158
Closed Grant Review Special Emphasis Panel 2,169
Closed All Other Functions 421
Meetings: Partially Closed 313
Total Meetings 8,140
Current Actual Next Estimate
Committee Personnel Payments: Non-Federal Members $ 37,793,640.00 $ 39,025,153.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Federal Members $ 1,670,452.00 $ 1,818,497.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Federal Staff $ 217,951,974.00 $ 218,636,410.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Non-Member Consultants $ 14,726,983.00 $ 12,614,230.00
Committee Total Travel and Per Diem $ 54,087,885.00 $ 58,455,119.00
Committee Other Costs $ 57,706,804.00 $ 61,543,822.00
Committee Total Cost $ 383,937,738.00 $ 392,093,231.00
Federal Staff Support Years (FTE) 1,666.20 1,639.48
Members 49,054
SEP Members 24,036
Total Members Serving During Fiscal Year 73,090

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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