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Reporting Fiscal Year 2022 Government Totals



Active Committees 952
Administratively Inactive Committees 60
Number of New Committees 34
Number of Terminated Committees 26
Number of Merged Committees 17
Committee Authority: Required by Statute 593
Committee Authority: Authorized by Statute 176
Committee Authority: Agency Authority 208
Committee Authority: Presidential Directive 33
Committee Type: Ad Hoc 8
Committee Type: Continuing 998
Committee Type: Presidential 30
Committee Description: National Policy/Issue 149
Committee Description: Non-Scientific 255
Committee Description: Scientific/Technical 210
Committee Description: Grant Review 91
Committee Description: Grant Review Special Emphasis Panel 28
Committee Description: Regulatory Negotiation 3
Committee Description: Other 272
Number of Reports 385
Meetings: Open 1,621
Meetings: Closed 5,510
Closed Grant Review 3,469
Closed Grant Review Special Emphasis Panel 1,675
Closed All Other Functions 366
Meetings: Partially Closed 205
Total Meetings 7,336
Current Actual Next Estimate
Committee Personnel Payments: Non-Federal Members $ 28,134,867.00 $ 30,058,491.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Federal Members $ 4,826,124.00 $ 7,279,239.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Federal Staff $ 248,102,212.00 $ 265,436,279.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Non-Member Consultants $ 15,210,409.00 $ 17,619,586.00
Committee Total Travel and Per Diem $ 4,816,078.00 $ 34,752,935.00
Committee Other Costs $ 42,502,676.00 $ 63,134,444.00
Committee Total Cost $ 343,592,370.00 $ 418,280,976.00
Federal Staff Support Years (FTE) 20,672.54 295,917.26
Members 51,036
SEP Members 24,196
Total Members Serving During Fiscal Year 75,232

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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