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Yarmouth board tightens draft green-burial rules, asks town counsel to clarify DEP sign-off language
Summary
Board members inserted a requirement that applicants obtain initial DEP review and voted to send the draft green-burial regulations back to town counsel to clarify whether the state agency must have final sign-off. The board also agreed to bar burials when decedents died of certain high-risk infections.
The Yarmouth Board of Health reviewed edits from town counsel to draft local regulations for green burials on private property and took several actions on March 17 to clarify the process and public-safety limits.
Board members agreed to add the word "first" to a provision so that each green-burial application must "first be reviewed and approved by DEP." The change, proposed by a board member during discussion, was approved by the board.
Members also tightened language on infectious-disease risk. The board decided to remove an…
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