Rights of Way Vegetation Management - VMPs, YOPs, and Notices

Pursuant to 333 CMR 11.00, the Department is required to review and allow for public input on VMPs and YOPs submitted by entities involved in ROW management.

Vegetation Management Plans (VMP), Yearly Operational Plans (YOP), and Environmental Monitor Notices (EMN).

Towns and Regions

Acton	VMP-2021-2025 VMP-2021-2025-EMN
Adams	VMP 2024-2028 VMP 2024-2028 EMN
Amtrak	2024 YOP 2024 YOP EMN
Athol	2024 YOP 2024 YOP EMN VMP 2020-2024 EMN VMP 2020-2024
Attleboro	2023 YOP 2023 YOP EMN VMP 2019-2023 EMN VMP 2019-2023
Bear Swamp	2024 YOP 2024 YOP EMN VMP 2021-2025 EMN VMP 2021-2025
Berkshire & Eastern Railroad	2024 YOP 2024 YOP EMN
Braintree	2024 YOP 2024 YOP EMN VMP 2020-2024 EMN VMP 2020-2024
Canton	2024 YOP 2024 YOP EMN VMP 2022-2026 VMP 2022-2026 EMN
CSX Transportation	2023 YOP 2023 YOP EMN
Danvers	2022 YOP EMN 2022 YOP
Eversource Energy - Cape Cod	2024 YOP 2024 YOP EMN 2023-2027 VMP 2023-2027 VMP EMN YOP Maps
Eversource Energy - Central, Eastern & Southeastern Massachusetts	2024 Off-Cape YOP 2024 Off-Cape YOP EMN YOP 2024 - Amended EMN 2023-2027 VMP 2023-2027 VMP EMN
Eversource Energy - Western Mass.	2024 YOP 2024 YOP EMN 2024-2028 VMP 2024-2028 VMP EMN
Fore River Transportation Corporation	2024 YOP 2024 YOP EMN 2021-2025 VMP 2021-2025 VMP EMN
Framingham	2023 YOP 2023 YOP EMN 2022-2026 VMP EMN 2022-2026 VMP
Franklin	2024 YOP 2024 YOP EMN 2022-2026-VMP 2022-2026-VMP EMN
Grafton and Upton Railroad	2024 YOP 2024 YOP EMN
Great River Hyrdo	VMP 2019-2023 VMP 2019-2023 EMN
Haverhill	2024 YOP 2024 YOP EMN VMP 2023-2027 VMP-2023-2027-EMN
Holden	2023 YOP 2023 YOP EMN VMP 2023-2027 VMP-2023-2027-EMN
Holyoke	2021 YOP 2021 YOP EMN
Holyoke Gas & Electric	2024 YOP 2024 YOP EMN 2024-2028 VMP EMN 2024-2028 VMP
Housatonic Railroad	2024 YOP 2024 YOP EMN
Keolis Railroad	2024 YOP 2024 YOP EMN 2021-2025 VMP EMN VMP 2021-2025
Leominster	2024 YOP 2024 YOP EMN 2024 Map 2022-2026 VMP 2022-2026 VMP EMN
Littleton	2024 YOP 2024 YOP EMN 2024-2028 VMP 2024-2028 VMP EMN
Lowell	2022 YOP 2022 YOP EMN VMP 2020-2024 EMN VMP 2020-2024
Mansfield	2022 YOP 2022 YOP EMN VMP 2019-2023 VMP 2019-2023 EMN
Marlborough	2023 YOP 2023 YOP EMN Wetlands Area - No Spray Zone Map USGS Quad Map Sensitive Areas Map VMP 2019-2023 EMN VMP 2019-2023
MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority)	2024 YOP 2024 YOP EMN VMP - 2019 - 2023
Mass Coastal Railroad	2023 YOP 2023 YOP EMN
Massachusetts Central Railroad	2024 YOP 2024 YOP EMN
Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Company (MMWEC)	2023 YOP 2023 YOP EMN VMP-2021-2025 EMN VMP-2021-2025
Massachusetts Railroad Association	2021-2025 VMP
MassDOT	2021-2025 VMP 2021-2025 VMP EMN
Medfield	VMP- 2021-2025 VMP-2021-2025-EMN
Medway	2024 YOP 2024 YOP EMN VMP-2021-2025 VMP-2021-2025-EMN
Milford	2022-2026 VMP 2022-2026 VMP EMN
Millbury	2024 YOP 2024 YOP EMN VMP 2023-2027 VMP 2023 - 2027 EMN
MMWEC	VMP-2021-2025 EMN VMP-2021-2025 2020 YOP 2020 YOP EMN
MMWEC - Ludlow	2023 YOP 2023 YOP EMN
National Grid	2024 YOP 2024 YOP EMN VMP 2024-2028 VMP 2024-2028 EMN
Natick	2024 YOP 2024 YOP EMN VMP 2020-2024 VMP 2020-2024 EMN
New England Central Railroad Company	2024 YOP 2024 YOP EMN
NextEra Energy	2024-2028-VMP 2024-2028-VMP-EMN
Orleans	2023 YOP 2023 YOP EMN 2022-2026-VMP 2022-2026-VMP-EMN
Pan Am Railways	2021-2025 VMP 2024 YOP 2024 YOP EMN
Pioneer Valley Railroad	2023 YOP 2023 YOP EMN 2021-2025 VMP 2021-2025 VMP EMN
Providence and Worcester Railroad Company	2024 YOP 2024 YOP EMN
Quincy	2024 YOP 2024 YOP EMN 2022-2026 VMP EMN 2022-2026 VMP
Southboro	2021 YOP 2021 YOP EMN VMP 2023-2027 VMP 2023-2027 EMN
Springfield	VMP 2019 - 2023 VMP 2019-2023 EMN
Sturbridge	2022 YOP 2022 YOP EMN 2022-2026 VMP 2022-2026 VMP EMN
Taunton	2021-2025 VMP 2021-2025 VMP EMN
Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company	2022-2026 VMP EMN 2022-2026 VMP 2020 YOP 2020 YOP EMN
Unitil	2024 YOP EMN 2024 YOP Unitil FG&E 2021 Appendix 1 Unitil FG&E 2021 Appendix 3 VMP 2024-2028 VMP 2024-2028 EMN
Waltham	2024 YOP 2024 YOP EMN VMP 2020-2024 EMN VMP 2020-2024
Wellesley	2024 YOP 2024 YOP EMN 2024 Map VMP 2020-2024 EMN VMP 2020-2024
Westborough	2021 YOP 2021 YOP ENV 2021 YOP Map VMP 2019-2023 VMP 2019 - 2023 ENV
Westfield	2021 YOP 2021 YOP EMN VMP 2016 - 2020
Weston	2024 YOP 2024 YOP EMN 2022 - 2026 VMP 2022-2026-VMP-EMN
Wilmington	2024 YOP EMN 2024 YOP VMP 2020-2024 VMP 2020-2024 EMN
Worcester	2023 YOP 2023 YOP ENV Worcester Vegetation Treatment Plan Map VMP 2019-2023 VMP 2019-2023 EMN

Additional Resources

Open file, Rights of Way Vegetation Management

Contact for Rights of Way Vegetation Management - VMPs, YOPs, and Notices

Online

Email Clayton Edwards at Clayton.l.Edwards@mass.gov

Phone

Call Clayton Edwards at 617-981-1587

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