Proceedings of the Symposium on Valid Existing Rights Auteur Various Authors Date 1990 Source IUCN (ID: MON-044316) Éditeur | Lieu de publication University of Kentucky College of Law | Lexington, KY, USA Pages 764 p. Type du document Monographie/livre Conférence nom | lieu | date Symposium on Valid Existing Rights | Washington | 19900403 -19900404 Langue Anglais Pays/Territoire États-Unis d'Amérique Sujet Ressources minérales Mot clé Gouvernance Résumé This symposium was convened to help define Valid Existing Rights. Section 522(e) of SMCRA prohibits surface coal mining operations in certain protected areas, such as national parks, wilderness areas and buffer zones around dwellings, schools, churches and roads, unless the mining operations were in existence prior to August 3, 1977, the implementation date of SMCRA, or a person has VER. The term is not defined in SMCRA