[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 20, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 20CFR258.6]

[Page 489-490]
 
                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
                  CHAPTER II--RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD
 
PART 258_HEARINGS BEFORE THE BOARD OR DESIGNATED EXAMINERS--Table of 
Contents
 
Sec. 258.6  Procedure when examiner appointed.

    (a) Where an examiner has been designated by the Board under this 
part to conduct a hearing with respect to a matter before it, the 
examiner shall preside at the hearing and shall cause all testimony to 
be recorded. The examiner shall, as soon as practicable following the 
conclusion of the hearing, mail to each party at the address stated in 
his or her appearance a free transcript of the record of the proceedings 
had before the examiner. Thereafter, the examiner shall give all parties 
participating in the hearing the opportunity to present argument upon 
both law and facts. Upon conclusion of the proceedings before him or 
her, the examiner shall prepare a report which, together with the record 
of the proceedings before him or her, shall be submitted to the Board. 
The report shall set forth the examiner's findings

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of fact, conclusions of law, and recommendations as to decision. The 
report may also contain such discussion of the question raised, both 
legal and factual, as the examiner may desire to present to the Board. A 
copy of the examiner's report shall be served by the examiner upon each 
party participating in the hearing by mailing such copy to each such 
party at the address stated in his or her appearance. Each party shall, 
within 30 days after the date of mailing to him or her of the examiner's 
report, file with the Board and serve upon other parties by mailing to 
their addresses as stated in their appearances such exceptions in 
writing as he or she desires to make to the examiner's findings of fact 
and conclusions of law. Each exception shall specifically designate the 
particular findings of fact or conclusions of law to which objection is 
taken, and shall set forth in detail the grounds for the objection. 
General exceptions and exceptions not specifically directed to 
particular findings of fact or conclusions of law will not be considered 
by the Board. Exceptions to findings of fact shall make specific 
reference by page numbers to those portions of the record upon which 
reliance is placed.
    (b) Each party shall have 10 days after receipt of exceptions taken 
by other parties in which to file with the Board replies to those 
exceptions. Replies to exceptions to findings of fact shall make 
specific reference by page number to those portions of the record upon 
which reliance is placed.
    (c) The Board may, upon the application of a party and for cause 
shown, extend the time for filing and serving of exceptions or filing of 
replies thereto. The Board will render its decision upon the record, the 
examiner's report, and such exceptions and replies thereto as are made.
    (d) The examiner's report shall be advisory only and the Board may, 
in any case, exercise its right to reject or adopt the examiner's report 
in whole or in part or adopt such report with modifications. Findings of 
fact to which no exceptions are taken will, subject only to the power of 
the Board upon its own consideration to reject or modify, be presumed to 
be correct.
    (e) The decision of the Board shall be communicated to the parties 
participating in the hearing within 30 days of the date upon which the 
decision of the Board is entered upon its records.