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Reporting Fiscal Year 2018 Government Totals



Active Committees 990
Administratively Inactive Committees 58
Number of New Committees 20
Number of Terminated Committees 34
Number of Merged Committees 13
Committee Authority: Required by Statute 599
Committee Authority: Authorized by Statute 186
Committee Authority: Agency Authority 240
Committee Authority: Presidential Directive 35
Committee Type: Ad Hoc 13
Committee Type: Continuing 1,045
Committee Type: Presidential 30
Committee Description: National Policy/Issue 144
Committee Description: Non-Scientific 278
Committee Description: Scientific/Technical 220
Committee Description: Grant Review 91
Committee Description: Grant Review Special Emphasis Panel 28
Committee Description: Regulatory Negotiation 5
Committee Description: Other 294
Number of Reports 470
Meetings: Open 1,748
Meetings: Closed 5,714
Closed Grant Review 3,074
Closed Grant Review Special Emphasis Panel 2,073
Closed All Other Functions 567
Meetings: Partially Closed 273
Total Meetings 7,735
Current Actual Next Estimate
Committee Personnel Payments: Non-Federal Members $ 35,925,426.00 $ 37,845,503.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Federal Members $ 13,510,625.00 $ 2,584,787.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Federal Staff $ 209,312,754.00 $ 218,360,954.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Non-Member Consultants $ 15,133,347.00 $ 13,610,998.00
Committee Total Travel and Per Diem $ 49,593,967.00 $ 56,093,671.00
Committee Other Costs $ 60,430,323.00 $ 58,948,199.00
Committee Total Cost $ 383,906,444.00 $ 387,444,114.00
Federal Staff Support Years (FTE) 13,402.56 108,521.62
Members 51,105
SEP Members 24,149
Total Members Serving During Fiscal Year 75,254

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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