---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 3076"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "3076"
heading: "Eligibility for witness security program"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/3076"
units:
  - "Part II — Criminal Procedure"
  - "Chapter 204 — Rewards for Information Concerning Terrorist Acts and Espionage"
---

# §3076. Eligibility for witness security program


Any individual (and the immediate family of such individual) who furnishes information which would justify a reward by the [Attorney General](/usc/18/3077.md?p=7) under this chapter or by the Secretary of State under section 36 of the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 may, in the discretion of the [Attorney General](/usc/18/3077.md?p=7), participate in the [Attorney General](/usc/18/3077.md?p=7)’s witness security program authorized under [chapter 224](/usc/18/chptII/ch224.md) of this title.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 98–533, title I, § 101(a), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2707; amended Pub. L. 99–646, § 45, Nov. 10, 1986, 100 Stat. 3601.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Section 36 of the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956, referred to in text, is classified to section 2708 of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse.

### Amendments

1986—Pub. L. 99–646 substituted “chapter 224 of this title” for “title V of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970”.