---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 C.F.R. § 13.6"
title: "28"
number: "13.6"
heading: "Criteria for reward."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/28/13.6"
---

# §13.6. Criteria for reward.

- (a) Information provided by any person to the United States for a reward under the Atomic Weapons and Special Nuclear Materials Rewards Act must be original, and must concern the unlawful:
  - (1) Introduction, manufacture or acquisition, or
  - (2) Attempted introduction, manufacture or acquisition of, or
  - (3) Export or attempt to export, or
  - (4) Conspiracy to introduce, manufacture, acquire or export special nuclear material or atomic weapons, or
  - (5) **Loss, diversion or disposal or special nuclear material or atomic weapons.**
- (b) The amount of the reward shall depend on:
  - (1) The amount of the material recovered or potentially recoverable, and the role the information played in the recovery, and
  - (2) The danger the material posed or poses to the common defense and security or public health and welfare, and
  - (3) The difficulty in ascertaining the information submitted to claim the reward, and the quality of the information, and
  - (4) Any other considerations which the Attorney General or the intra-departmental committee deems necessary or helpful to the individual determination.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 50 U.S.C. 47d.

### Source

Source: Order No. 974-82, 47 FR 11516, Mar. 17, 1982, unless otherwise noted.