---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 375.1"
title: "20"
number: "375.1"
heading: "Purpose."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/375.1"
---

# §375.1. Purpose.

- (a) The Railroad Retirement Board has adopted a plan to provide basic organization and methods of operation that may be needed to continue uninterrupted service during a period of national emergency as defined in [§ 375.2](/cfr/20/375.2.md).
- (b) The plan is published to inform all interested persons of the circumstances and ways in which the Board will organize and operate in a national emergency.
- (c) For purposes of Government-wide uniformity, the procedures of the Board regarding payments during evacuation to employees and their dependents shall conform to those contained in [subpart D of part 550](/cfr/20/part550-subpartD.md) of the regulations of the Office of Personnel Management pertaining to “Payments During Evacuation” ([5 CFR part 550](/cfr/5/part550.md), [subpart D](/cfr/20/subpartD.md)).

## Notes

### Amendments

[29 FR 15864, Nov. 26, 1964, as amended at 64 FR 66381, Nov. 26, 1999; 90 FR 26428, June 23, 2025]

### Authority

Authority: 45 U.S.C. 231f(b)(3), (5), 362(l), (m).

### Source

Source: 29 FR 15864, Nov. 26, 1964, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 29 FR 16322, Dec. 5, 1964, and further redesignated at 45 FR 28314, Apr. 29, 1980.

### Amendments

[29 FR 15864, Nov. 26, 1964, as amended at 64 FR 66381, Nov. 26, 1999; 90 FR 26428, June 23, 2025]