Paid leave for CAP duty for federal workers

[RiverAux]

Any mission where there's enough time to do paperwork like that is not an emergency... thus shouldn't require paid time off work.

Wrong.  Check with some of the states already have similar provisions.  I have it on good authority that in one of them that this can be done in less than an hour.

Keep in mind that we're not talking about using this for run-of-the-mill ELT missions and even though it could be done quickly, I do doubt that it would be used on the first day or two of other missions.  Most "real" missions last 3-10 days so there would be plenty of time for such a request to be processed. 

[Eclipse]

^ And in the case of hurricane response, especially, communities and agencies can start planning days, if not a couple of weeks in advance.

You write the orders to encompass the anticipated landfall and timing, adjust as necessary.