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Reporting Fiscal Year 2022 Government Totals



Active Committees 942
Administratively Inactive Committees 65
Number of New Committees 30
Number of Terminated Committees 18
Number of Merged Committees 0
Committee Authority: Required by Statute 590
Committee Authority: Authorized by Statute 177
Committee Authority: Agency Authority 206
Committee Authority: Presidential Directive 32
Committee Type: Ad Hoc 8
Committee Type: Continuing 993
Committee Type: Presidential 28
Committee Description: National Policy/Issue 147
Committee Description: Non-Scientific 250
Committee Description: Scientific/Technical 208
Committee Description: Grant Review 91
Committee Description: Grant Review Special Emphasis Panel 28
Committee Description: Regulatory Negotiation 3
Committee Description: Other 277
Number of Reports 370
Meetings: Open 1,476
Meetings: Closed 5,439
Closed Grant Review 3,463
Closed Grant Review Special Emphasis Panel 1,674
Closed All Other Functions 302
Meetings: Partially Closed 200
Total Meetings 7,115
Current Actual Next Estimate
Committee Personnel Payments: Non-Federal Members $ 27,929,040.00 $ 29,593,963.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Federal Members $ 4,353,337.00 $ 6,680,771.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Federal Staff $ 236,829,776.00 $ 250,441,168.00
Committee Personnel Payments: Non-Member Consultants $ 10,420,732.00 $ 12,411,145.00
Committee Total Travel and Per Diem $ 4,192,457.00 $ 31,992,633.00
Committee Other Costs $ 40,440,617.00 $ 59,482,205.00
Committee Total Cost $ 324,165,962.00 $ 390,601,887.00
Federal Staff Support Years (FTE) 75,408.12 636,883.35
Members 50,349
SEP Members 24,197
Total Members Serving During Fiscal Year 74,546

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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