The grease traps covered by the proposed standard are most often found at restaurants, small food processing plants, and industrial sites, where they are used to help remove high grease content effluent prior to entering the sanitary sewer system. Kurdziel notes that this kind of grease trap is often located under parking lots or paved areas, so a collapse poses a real danger to the public. The proposed standard is intended to provide uniform dimensions, product quality, and adequate structure integrity for grease trap interceptor units.
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