Sec. 202. Training; emergency response providers
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Chapter 7 of title 14, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 141 the following: The Commandant (or the Commandant’s designee) may, on a reimbursable or a non-reimbursable basis, make training available to public safety personnel whenever the Commandant (or the Commandant’s designee) determines that— a member of the Coast Guard, who was scheduled to participate in such training, is unable or unavailable to participate in such training; no other member of the Coast Guard, who is assigned to the unit to which the member of the Coast Guard described in paragraph (1), is able or available to participate in such training; and such training, if made available to public safety personnel, would further the goal of interoperability among Federal agencies, non-Federal governmental agencies, or both.
In this section, the term emergency response provider has the meaning given the term in section 101 of title 6. Any reimbursement for training that the Coast Guard receives under this section shall be credited to the appropriation used to pay the costs for such training. Any individual to whom, as an emergency response provider, training is made available under this section shall not be considered a Federal employee for any purpose, including the purposes of— chapter 81 of title 5 (relating to compensation for injury); or sections 2671 through 2680 of title 28 (relating to tort claims).
The individual described in paragraph
(1)or that individual’s employer shall be liable for any claim arising out of such training. . The table of contents of chapter 7 of title 14, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 141 the following: 141a. Training; emergency response providers. .