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Reporting Fiscal Year 2017 Government Totals



Active Committees 1,019
Administratively Inactive Committees 63
Number of New Committees 50
Number of Terminated Committees 43
Number of Merged Committees
Committee Authority: Required by Statute 605
Committee Authority: Authorized by Statute 181
Committee Authority: Agency Authority 252
Committee Authority: Presidential Directive 44
Committee Type: Ad Hoc 18
Committee Type: Continuing 1,063
Committee Type: Presidential 38
Committee Description: National Policy/Issue 150
Committee Description: Non-Scientific 281
Committee Description: Scientific/Technical 223
Committee Description: Grant Review 90
Committee Description: Grant Review Special Emphasis Panel 29
Committee Description: Regulatory Negotiation 5
Committee Description: Other 304
Number of Reports 630
Meetings: Open 1,965
Meetings: Closed 5,618
Closed Grant Review 3,126
Closed Grant Review Special Emphasis Panel 2,114
Closed All Other Functions 378
Meetings: Partially Closed 302
Total Meetings 7,885
Current Actual Next Estimate
Committee Personnel Payments: Non-Federal Members $ 37,537,350.00 $ 40,646,733.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Federal Members $ 1,420,328.00 $ 1,710,827.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Federal Staff $ 214,306,057.00 $ 220,249,079.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Non-Member Consultants $ 14,478,799.00 $ 16,225,851.00
Committee Total Travel and Per Diem $ 53,675,171.00 $ 60,752,892.00
Committee Other Costs $ 58,578,189.00 $ 58,164,228.00
Committee Total Cost $ 379,995,894.00 $ 397,749,610.00
Federal Staff Support Years (FTE) 1,586.49 1,605.81
Members 53,093
SEP Members 24,521
Total Members Serving During Fiscal Year 77,614

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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