Gangwon-do Wins Grand Prize for '2024 Local Regulatory Innovation Best Practices'

On the 24th, Awarded the Prime Minister's Commendation for 'Improvement of Coal Gangue Waste Regulations' Case
Excluding 'Coal Gangue' Waste to Open Industrial Utilization Pathways

Gangwon Special Self-Governing Province (Governor Kim Jin-tae) announced on the 25th that Gangwon-do's case of "Coal Gangseok Regulation Improvement" won the grand prize (Prime Minister's Commendation) at the "2024 Local Regulation Innovation Best Practice Competition" hosted by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, held on the 24th at Daegu EXCO.

Gangwon Special Self-Governing Province received the grand prize for the case of "Improvement of Coal Lump Regulation" at the "2024 Local Regulation Innovation Best Practice Competition" hosted by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety held at Daegu EXCO on the 24th, and officials are taking a commemorative photo.

At this competition, 10 outstanding cases that passed the first and second rounds of screening were selected from 105 excellent cases nationwide to compete in the finals.

Since 2002, Gangwon-do has been working to improve the coal gangseok waste regulation, which had been restricted for 22 years. In 2022, a dedicated regulatory innovation department was established, and from 2023, Gangwon-do has been making full-scale efforts to improve regulations in collaboration with the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, the Ministry of Environment, and Taebaek City. As a result, through the "Coal Gangseok Regulation Improvement Business Agreement" in June this year, the regulation on coal gangseok waste was improved.

This regulatory improvement has been evaluated as opening the way for industrial use of "coal gangseok," which had been treated as waste and a burden in abandoned mining areas, by excluding it from waste, thereby laying the foundation for the revitalization of the depressed abandoned mining areas.

Hwang Byung-gwan, Head of the Gangwon Special Self-Governing Promotion Team, stated, "We will continue to make our best efforts to discover and improve regulatory innovation cases such as the second and third 'coal gangseok waste regulation improvements' that residents can feel directly."