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a best management practice (BMP) program which has been approved by the Citv's Public Works Director in writing. 3. The citv shall, from time to time, establish by resolution the minimum standards for the content of a BMP program. 4. No FSE or FM/P shall discharge anv substance of anv kind into anv portion of the wastewater facilitv which is not in conformance with the BMP program for that FSE or FM/P. C. FOG prohibitions. The following prohibitions apply to all FSE or FM/Ps: 1. Installation of food grinders in a plumbing or sewage system in anv new construction or renovation of a structure designed to house a FSE or FM/P; 2. Discharge anv wastewater containing FOG into the sanitary sewer system except in compliance with the BMP program for that facility: 3. Introduction of any additives into the wastewater system for the purpose of emulsifying FOG or biologically or chemicallv treating anv substance introduced into anv wastewater facilitv for purpose of treatment or pretreatment of wastewater, unless with a specific written authorization by the Public Works Director; 4. Discharge of wastewater at temperatures in excess of 140 degrees Fahrenheit to anv grease interceptor or grease trap: 5. Operation of grease interceptors if the unit has accumulated waste, both FOG and food solids, accounting for 25 percent or more of its wetted depth measured from the static water level to the interior tank bottom, with FOG and solids accumulation, exceeding 25 percent of the total operating depth of the grease interceptor: or 6. Discharge of anv FOG or anv other solid materials removed from the grease control device to the wastewater system. D. FOG interceptors installation requirements. 1. Except as provided for in subsection (802.15.M) below, anv structure designed for or intended to be used for an FSE or FM/P must have a grease interceptor installed prior to discharging any wastewater into a wastewater system. Such grease interceptor must comply with all conditions as set forth in the State of Minnesota Administrative Code, ( MN Rule 4715) and the Ramsey County Public Health Department.: 2. Propertv owners of anv new commercial construction structure designed to house multiple tenants on a single parcel shall be responsible to install and maintain a single grease interceptor to serve each individual tenant unless a propertv owner demonstrates to the Public Works Director that it is not practically possible to install and maintain a single grease interceptor to serve each individual unit located in the structure in which case the Public Works Director has the discretion to approve a plan for such structure providing for more than one grease interceptor or a combination of grease interceptors and grease traps to service such property, which approval shall be in writing. Said approved plan shall include the minimum number of grease interceptors and grease traps that can reasonablv serve the structure and the BMP program shall specifically include service for all approved grease intercepts and Grease traps: 3. The owner of anv structure occupied by more than one FSE or FM/P (malls and strip malls) shall be jointly and severally liable with the owner of each FSE or FM/P served by any grease interceptor or anv grease trap for the servicing and maintenance of that grease interceptor or grease trap and for anv servicing and maintenance of any sanitary sewer system located downstream from said structure to remove anv accumulations of FOG therefrom: 4. The Public Works Director may require existing FSE or FM/Ps and owners of structures in which such FSE or FM/Ps are located which have been identified as introducing FOG in anv portion of the wastewater system, and which introduction of FOG, in whole or in combination with other FOG contributors, has been