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[CITE: 50USC47a]

 
                   TITLE 50--WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
  CHAPTER 4C--ATOMIC WEAPONS AND SPECIAL NUCLEAR MATERIALS INFORMATION 
                                 REWARDS
 
Sec. 47a. Information concerning illegal introduction, 
        manufacture, acquisition or export of special nuclear material 
        or atomic weapons or conspiracies relating thereto; reward
        
    Any person who furnishes original information to the United States--
        (a) leading to the finding or other acquisition by the United 
    States of special nuclear material or an atomic weapon which has 
    been introduced into the United States or manufactured or acquired 
    therein contrary to the laws of the United States, or
        (b) with respect to the introduction or attempted introduction 
    into the United States or the manufacture or acquisition or 
    attempted manufacture or acquisition of, or a conspiracy to 
    introduce into the United States or to manufacture or acquire, 
    special nuclear material or an atomic weapon contrary to the laws of 
    the United States, or
        (c) with respect to the export or attempted export, or a 
    conspiracy to export, special nuclear material or an atomic weapon 
    from the United States contrary to the laws of the United States,

shall be rewarded by the payment of an amount not to exceed $500,000.

(July 15, 1955, ch. 372, Sec. 2, 69 Stat. 365; Pub. L. 93-377, 
Sec. 1(b), Aug. 17, 1974, 88 Stat. 472.)


                               Amendments

    1974--Pub. L. 93-377 in par. (a) made minor changes in phraseology, 
in par. (b) included information relating to the actual introduction, 
manufacture and acquisition, or conspiring to introduce into the United 
States or to manufacture or acquire special nuclear material or an 
atomic weapon as within the information for which a reward would be 
given, and added par. (c).


                               Short Title

    Section 1 of act July 15, 1955, as amended by section 1(a) of Pub. 
L. 93-377, provided: ``That this Act [enacting this chapter] may be 
cited as the `Atomic Weapons and Special Nuclear Materials Rewards 
Act'.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 47b of this title.
