§70132 Credentialing Standards, Training, and Certification for State and Local Support for the Enforcement of Security Zones for the Transportation of Especially Hazardous Cargo

Summary

The Commandant of the Coast Guard must create national rules for training and giving credentials to people who enforce or help enforce security zones used when especially hazardous cargo is moved. The Coast Guard must publish a training curriculum for three groups: public safety personnel who enforce a security zone, public safety personnel who assist, and facility or vessel staff hired or kept to help enforce a zone. The Coast Guard can teach the training itself, let other public or private groups teach it under agreement, or accept programs from such groups. Federal agencies and any group that gets money under section 70107(b)(8) must provide the training to public safety personnel and make it available to assisting personnel and to facility or vessel staff. A federal agency may take payment for giving the training and put that money into the proper appropriation. Department of Homeland Security grants may be used to pay for this training. When making and running the program, the Secretary, working with the Maritime Administrator and consistent with section 109 of the Maritime Transportation Security Act of 2002 (46 U.S.C. 70101 note), must work with government training centers, colleges, private organizations, unions, and others; use community colleges, public safety academies, and similar schools when useful; and certify organizations that teach the approved curriculum. "Public safety personnel" means federal, state, territorial, tribal, or local law officers, firefighters, or emergency responders.