Title 14 — Coast GuardRelease 119-73not60

§718 Training; Emergency Response Providers

Title 14 › Subtitle SUBTITLE I— ESTABLISHMENT, POWERS, DUTIES, AND ADMINISTRATION › Chapter 7— COOPERATION › § 718

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Commandant can offer Coast Guard training to emergency responders, either paid for by the trainee’s organization or provided free, when three things are true: a Coast Guard member who was scheduled can’t take the course; no other Coast Guard member from that unit can take it; and the training would help different agencies work together. "Emergency response providers" uses the definition in the Homeland Security Act of 2002. Any money paid back for the training goes into the same fund that paid the costs. People who are not federal employees do not become federal employees by taking the training, and the United States is not responsible for their actions during the training.

Full Legal Text

Title 14, §718

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(a)The Commandant may, on a reimbursable or a non-reimbursable basis, make a training available to emergency response providers whenever the Commandant determines that—

(1)a member of the Coast Guard, who is scheduled to participate in such training, is unable or unavailable to participate in such training;

(2)no other member of the Coast Guard, who is assigned to the unit to which the member of the Coast Guard who is unable or unavailable to participate in such training is assigned, is able or available to participate in such training; and

(3)such training, if made available to such emergency response providers, would further the goal of interoperability among Federal agencies, non-Federal governmental agencies, or both.

(b)In this section, the term “emergency response providers” has the meaning given that term in section 2 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 101).

(c)Any reimbursements for a training that the Coast Guard receives under this section shall be credited to the appropriation used to pay the costs for such training.

(d)(1)Any individual to whom, as an emergency response provider, training is made available under this section, who is not otherwise a Federal employee, shall not, because of that training, be considered a Federal employee for any purpose (including the purposes of chapter 81 of title 5 (relating to compensation for injury) and sections 2671 through 2680 of title 28 (relating to tort claims)).

(2)The United States shall not be liable for actions taken by an individual in the course of training made available under this section.

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Citation

14 U.S.C. § 718

Title 14 — Coast Guard

Last Updated

Apr 3, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60