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Reporting Fiscal Year 2009 Government Totals



Active Committees 907
Administratively Inactive Committees 46
Number of New Committees 67
Number of Terminated Committees 52
Number of Merged Committees
Committee Authority: Required by Statute 432
Committee Authority: Authorized by Statute 206
Committee Authority: Agency Authority 281
Committee Authority: Presidential Directive 34
Committee Type: Ad Hoc 20
Committee Type: Continuing 933
Committee Type: Presidential 39
Committee Description: National Policy/Issue 125
Committee Description: Non-Scientific 272
Committee Description: Scientific/Technical 221
Committee Description: Grant Review 91
Committee Description: Grant Review Special Emphasis Panel 25
Committee Description: Regulatory Negotiation 2
Committee Description: Other 217
Number of Reports 1,068
Meetings: Open 1,982
Meetings: Closed 4,944
Closed Grant Review 2,389
Closed Grant Review Special Emphasis Panel 2,233
Closed All Other Functions 322
Meetings: Partially Closed 296
Total Meetings 7,222
Current Actual Next Estimate
Committee Personnel Payments: Non-Federal Members $ 42,587,135.00 $ 42,873,197.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Federal Members $ 3,036,928.00 $ 3,965,157.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Federal Staff $ 172,392,005.00 $ 176,791,527.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Non-Member Consultants $ 15,423,647.00 $ 14,197,962.00
Committee Total Travel and Per Diem $ 59,746,193.00 $ 66,516,331.00
Committee Other Costs $ 68,307,500.00 $ 71,569,039.00
Committee Total Cost $ 361,493,408.00 $ 375,913,213.00
Federal Staff Support Years (FTE) 1,537.67 1,554.16
Members 45,649
SEP Members 36,276
Total Members Serving During Fiscal Year 81,925

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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