This layer represents the boundaries of the Massachusetts Homeland Security Planning Regions. These regions are used by the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) for Homeland Security Planning.

Two layers - polygon and arc feature classes - are stored in ArcSDE as HLSPREGIONS_POLY and HLSPREGIONS_ARC.

Production

The layer was developed by the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency by dissolving (combining) poygons from MassGIS' 1:25,000 Towns layer. The arc layer was generated by MassGIS using ESRI'S ArcGIS 9.0 software.

Attributes

The polygon attribute table contains the following item: 

Item	Description
REGION	Homeland Security Planning Region name

The arc attribute table contains the following item:

Item	Description
OUTLINE	Boundary type:  9 = Internal region boundary  1 = State outline  4 = Coastline

Maintenance

MEMA will provide any updates to MassGIS. For more information please contact:
MEMA
Framingham, MA 01702
508-820-2000 (voice)
508-820-2030 (fax)

Last Updated 3/13/2009