§718 Training; Emergency Response Providers

Summary

The Commandant can offer Coast Guard training to emergency response providers, either for payment or for free, when three things are true: a Coast Guard member who was to take the training cannot attend, no other Coast Guard member assigned to that unit can attend, and giving the training to those emergency responders would help agencies work together better (federal, non-federal, or both). Any money paid to the Coast Guard for the training must go back into the same budget that paid for the training. “Emergency response providers” means what section 2 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 101) says. People who get the training but are not federal employees will not be treated as federal employees for any purpose (including chapter 81 of title 5 and sections 2671 through 2680 of title 28), and the United States is not liable for actions taken by someone during that training.