§332 — Title 14 Coast Guard | U.S. Code

Summary

The Commandant must create a policy to run a program that allows a Coast Guard officer, member, or employee to be assigned to a private entity to support the Coast Guard’s marine safety work, including to provide training. For Coast Guard employees, the policy must cover how long assignments last and how they end, reimbursements, and participants’ status, pay, benefits, and duties, consistent with sections 3702 through 3704 of title 5. Before approving any assignment, the Commandant must decide it is a good use of Coast Guard funds by weighing the Coast Guard’s best interests and the costs and benefits of other ways to meet the same goals.

Title 14, §332

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The Commandant shall, by policy, establish a program under which an officer, member, or employee of the Coast Guard may be assigned to a private entity to further the institutional interests of the Coast Guard with regard to marine safety, including for the purpose of providing training to an officer, member, or employee. Policies to carry out the program—

(1)with regard to an employee of the Coast Guard, shall include provisions, consistent with sections 3702 through 3704 of title 5, as to matters concerning—

(A)the duration and termination of assignments;

(B)reimbursements; and

(C)status, entitlements, benefits, and obligations of program participants; and

(2)shall require the Commandant, before approving the assignment of an officer, member, or employee of the Coast Guard to a private entity, to determine that the assignment is an effective use of the Coast Guard’s funds, taking into account the best interests of the Coast Guard and the costs and benefits of alternative methods of achieving the same results and objectives.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 332 was renumbered section 2128 of this title.

Amendments

2025—Pub. L. 119–60 renumbered section 314 of this title as this section. 2018—Pub. L. 115–282 renumbered section 59 of this title as this section. 2014—Pub. L. 113–281 struck out subsec. (a) designation and heading before “The Commandant” and struck out subsec. (b). Text of subsec. (b) read as follows: “Not later than the date of the submission each year of the President’s budget request under section 1105 of title 31, the Commandant shall submit to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a report that describes— “(1) the number of officers, members, and employees of the Coast Guard assigned to private entities under this section; and “(2) the specific benefit that accrues to the Coast Guard for each assignment.”

§332 Marine Industry Training Program