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Title 14 — Coast GuardRelease 119-73

§2508 Emergency leave retention authority

Title 14 › Subtitle SUBTITLE II— - PERSONNEL › Chapter CHAPTER 25— - PERSONNEL; GENERAL PROVISIONS › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - GENERAL PROVISIONS › § 2508

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Coast Guard members sent to help after a President-declared major disaster or emergency (Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) or sent to a Commandant-declared spill of national significance must be treated as supporting a contingency operation under section 701(e) of title 10. "Discharge" means what section 1001 of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2701) defines.

Full Legal Text

Title 14, §2508

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(a)A duty assignment for an active duty member of the Coast Guard in support of a declaration of a major disaster or emergency by the President under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) or in response to a spill of national significance shall be treated, for the purpose of section 701(e) of title 10, as a duty assignment in support of a contingency operation.
(b)In this section:
(1)The term “spill of national significance” means a discharge of oil or a hazardous substance that is declared by the Commandant to be a spill of national significance.
(2)The term “discharge” has the meaning given that term in section 1001 of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2701).

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is Pub. L. 93–288, May 22, 1974, 88 Stat. 143, which is classified principally to chapter 68 (§ 5121 et seq.) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 5121 of Title 42 and Tables.

Amendments

2022—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 117–263 substituted “section 701(e)” for “section 701(f)(2)”. 2018—Pub. L. 115–282 renumbered section 426 of this title as this section.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2022 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 117–232 effective Jan. 1, 2023, see section 631(d) of Pub. L. 117–263, set out as a note under section 701 of Title 10, Armed Forces.

Effective Date

Pub. L. 111–281, title II, § 207(c), Oct. 15, 2010, 124 Stat. 2912, provided that: “The

Amendments

made by this section [enacting this section] shall be deemed to have been enacted on April 19, 2010.”

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

14 U.S.C. § 2508

Title 14 — Coast Guard

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73