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Reporting Fiscal Year 2021 Government Totals



Active Committees 925
Administratively Inactive Committees 70
Number of New Committees 25
Number of Terminated Committees 22
Number of Merged Committees 2
Committee Authority: Required by Statute 581
Committee Authority: Authorized by Statute 178
Committee Authority: Agency Authority 204
Committee Authority: Presidential Directive 34
Committee Type: Ad Hoc 11
Committee Type: Continuing 980
Committee Type: Presidential 32
Committee Description: National Policy/Issue 144
Committee Description: Non-Scientific 252
Committee Description: Scientific/Technical 207
Committee Description: Grant Review 91
Committee Description: Grant Review Special Emphasis Panel 29
Committee Description: Regulatory Negotiation 2
Committee Description: Other 270
Number of Reports 338
Meetings: Open 1,598
Meetings: Closed 5,944
Closed Grant Review 3,768
Closed Grant Review Special Emphasis Panel 1,815
Closed All Other Functions 361
Meetings: Partially Closed 152
Total Meetings 7,694
Current Actual Next Estimate
Committee Personnel Payments: Non-Federal Members $ 29,167,494.00 $ 31,995,101.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Federal Members $ 3,979,632.00 $ 4,945,922.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Federal Staff $ 240,463,468.00 $ 265,865,255.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Non-Member Consultants $ 12,316,470.00 $ 14,850,609.00
Committee Total Travel and Per Diem $ 490,037.00 $ 25,581,347.00
Committee Other Costs $ 45,043,612.00 $ 54,269,494.00
Committee Total Cost $ 331,460,715.00 $ 397,507,731.00
Federal Staff Support Years (FTE) 1,552.03 149,661.52
Members 52,875
SEP Members 26,475
Total Members Serving During Fiscal Year 79,350

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