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Reporting Fiscal Year 2019 Government Totals



Active Committees 971
Administratively Inactive Committees 59
Number of New Committees 13
Number of Terminated Committees 46
Number of Merged Committees 0
Committee Authority: Required by Statute 586
Committee Authority: Authorized by Statute 181
Committee Authority: Agency Authority 228
Committee Authority: Presidential Directive 35
Committee Type: Ad Hoc 10
Committee Type: Continuing 1,008
Committee Type: Presidential 33
Committee Description: National Policy/Issue 145
Committee Description: Non-Scientific 269
Committee Description: Scientific/Technical 216
Committee Description: Grant Review 91
Committee Description: Grant Review Special Emphasis Panel 29
Committee Description: Regulatory Negotiation 3
Committee Description: Other 277
Number of Reports 448
Meetings: Open 1,564
Meetings: Closed 5,468
Closed Grant Review 2,943
Closed Grant Review Special Emphasis Panel 1,981
Closed All Other Functions 544
Meetings: Partially Closed 238
Total Meetings 7,270
Current Actual Next Estimate
Committee Personnel Payments: Non-Federal Members $ 33,601,031.00 $ 39,949,911.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Federal Members $ 3,785,931.00 $ 4,115,032.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Federal Staff $ 215,691,295.00 $ 220,528,871.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Non-Member Consultants $ 12,200,678.00 $ 13,622,901.00
Committee Total Travel and Per Diem $ 45,719,167.00 $ 52,070,944.00
Committee Other Costs $ 62,221,409.00 $ 66,969,782.00
Committee Total Cost $ 373,219,515.00 $ 397,257,443.00
Federal Staff Support Years (FTE) 1,490.70 38,190.63
Members 45,865
SEP Members 24,376
Total Members Serving During Fiscal Year 70,241

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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