62nd Annual Institute Proceedings (2016)

This hardbound volume includes 29 scholarly and practical papers delivered at the 62nd Annual Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute, covering:

• Oil and Gas - Strategies for midstream operators and producer suppliers during distressed times; permitting and trespass issues associated with horizontal development on federal lands; operator remedies against defaulting non-operators; recent developments in royalty interest calculation; marketing production on behalf of lessors and non-operators; lease maintenance during economic downturn; reorganizations and workouts; annual update

• Mining - Managing mine-water discharges from inactive and abandoned mines; royalties as personal or real property; reorganizations and workouts; challenges to coal industry; annual update

• International Mineral Development - Extractive sector transparency reporting initiatives in the U.S., U.K., and Canada; business case for ethical supply chain; economic sanctions affecting U.S. and non-U.S. extractive operations

• Environment - EPA’s CERCLA bonding initiative for hard rock mines; air quality—efforts to curb emissions and climate change; scope of federal agency deference; annual update

• Public Lands - Greater sage-grouse conservation strategy; evolving NEPA framework for assessing greenhouse gases and the social cost of carbon; landscape-scale mitigation

• Water - Clean Water Act judicial developments; Truckee River system management by agreement; collateralization of water rights in the West

• Ethics - Cybersecurity—information governance, breach response, ethics and privilege; due diligence

• Landmen - Due diligence; drilling with no JOA or multiple JOAs; community property

Published December 2016 - Hardbound volume – 980 pages ISBN 978-1-943497-08-9