---
kind: "section"
citation: "32 C.F.R. § 175.4"
title: "32"
number: "175.4"
heading: "Responsibilities."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/32/175.4"
---

# §175.4. Responsibilities.

- (a) The General Counsel of the Department of Defense has been delegated the authorities and responsibilities of the Secretary of Defense under [section 330](/cfr/32/330.md) and [section 1502(e)](/cfr/32/1502.md?p=e), with certain limitations as to re-delegation.
- (b) The General Counsel has re-delegated the authority and responsibility to adjudicate requests for indemnification or defense and to process notices to DoD of a third-party claim under [section 330](/cfr/32/330.md) and [section 1502(e)](/cfr/32/1502.md?p=e) to the Deputy General Counsel or, when the position of Deputy General Counsel is vacant, the acting Deputy General Counsel. The authority to acknowledge receipt of a request has been delegated to an Associate General Counsel under the Deputy General Counsel.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 10 U.S.C. 113, 5 U.S.C. 301, section 330 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993, Public Law 102-484, October 23, 1992, 106 Stat. 2371, as amended, and section 1502(e) of the Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Pub. L. 106-398, October 30, 2000, 1014 Stat. 1654A-350, as amended.

### Source

Source: 83 FR 34475, July 20, 2018, unless otherwise noted.