{"identifier":"/us/usc/t14/s2508","title":14,"num":"\u00a7\u202f2508.","heading":"Emergency leave retention authority","text":"\u00a7\u202f2508.\nEmergency leave retention authority\n(a)\nIn General.\u2014\nA duty assignment for an active duty member of the Coast Guard in support of a declaration of a major disaster or emergency by the President under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (\n42 U.S.C. 5121\nsection 701(e) of title 10\n(b)\nDefinitions.\u2014\nIn this section:\n(1)\nSpill of national significance.\u2014\nThe term \u201cspill of national significance\u201d means a discharge of oil or a hazardous substance that is declared by the Commandant to be a spill of national significance.\n(2)\nDischarge.\u2014\nThe term \u201cdischarge\u201d has the meaning given that term in section 1001 of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (\n33 U.S.C. 2701","url":"https://projectusc.org/usc/t14/s2508.html","content":[{"t":"sec","id":"/us/usc/t14/s2508","children":[{"t":"num","text":"\u00a7\u202f2508."},{"t":"heading","text":"Emergency leave retention authority"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t14/s2508/a","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(a)"},{"t":"heading","text":"In General.\u2014"},{"t":"content","text":"A duty assignment for an active duty member of the Coast Guard in support of a declaration of a major disaster or emergency by the President under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (","children":[{"t":"ref","text":"42 U.S.C. 5121","href":"/us/usc/t42/s5121","tail":" et seq.) or in response to a spill of national significance shall be treated, for the purpose of "},{"t":"ref","text":"section 701(e) of title 10","href":"/us/usc/t10/s701/e","tail":", as a duty assignment in support of a contingency operation."}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t14/s2508/b","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(b)"},{"t":"heading","text":"Definitions.\u2014"},{"t":"chapeau","text":"In this section:"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t14/s2508/b/1","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(1)"},{"t":"heading","text":"Spill of national significance.\u2014"},{"t":"content","text":"The term \u201cspill of national significance\u201d means a discharge of oil or a hazardous substance that is declared by the Commandant to be a spill of national significance.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t14/s2508/b/2","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(2)"},{"t":"heading","text":"Discharge.\u2014"},{"t":"content","text":"The term \u201cdischarge\u201d has the meaning given that term in section 1001 of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (","children":[{"t":"ref","text":"33 U.S.C. 2701","href":"/us/usc/t33/s2701","tail":")."}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"}]}]}