Business Grease Fees May Have Negative Impact
The regulations may have been approved in 2011, but nobody appears to be sure.
Regulations apparently approved by the Attleboro City Council in 2011 are unfairly grouping all restaurants into one category when it comes to grease use and costing them unnecessary fees, local Chamber of Commerce President Jack Lank said Tuesday night. Councilors said they would look into the matter. Lank told the council that several restaurant owners had told him about the Fats, Oils and Grease program that places a new burden on restaurants because they supposedly have the potential to create higher operating costs for the city's sewer system. The regulations require all businesses determined to be "significant commercial users" to pay for a $175 permit every two years and pay a $100 surcharge every three months, making the total cost…
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Gretchen Robinson
9:13 pm on Monday, February 18, 2013
I'm always amazed at the info. I get on PATCH that I'd never get anywhere else. That is truly eye opening and I've never seen a newspaper report on this. I do know that some owners of diesel cars use cooking oil to run their cars. But this is new. more ›