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Indian River County Sector 3 Beach and Dune Restoration Project Page 3 Exhibit A — 2014 Scope of Work surrounded by a series of small stakes connected by brightly colored surveyor's tape. Marked nests will be monitored throughout their incubation period to determine nest fate (e.g., hatched, washed out, depredated vandalized, etc.). After an appropriate incubation period, and in accordance with FWC guidelines, nests will be excavated to determine reproductive success. Nest contents will be assigned to standard categories (e.g., unhatched eggs, dead hatchlings, etc.) developed by FWC. Two measures of reproductive success will then be calculated: hatching success (the percentage of eggs in the nest that hatch) and emerging success (the percentage of eggs in the nest that produce hatchlings which successfully escape from the nest). For the purpose of evaluating the effects of the Sector 3 Beach and Dune Restoration Project on sea turtle reproductive success, at least 75 loggerhead nests will be marked in each of the three phases and in the control. This will yield a minimum of 300 marked loggerhead nests. All green turtle nests, up to a maximum of 200, will be marked for evaluations. Too few leatherback nests occur within the Project Area to provide a statistically meaningful number to assess project impacts, if any, on reproductive success. Therefore no leatherback nests will be marked. Nest fate and reproductive success data for loggerhead and green turtles will be compared between each of the three project phases and the control. As appropriate, statistical analyses will be performed on the data. All activities described in Tasks 2-3 will be performed under FWC Marine Turtle Permit TP -010 in accordance with current or future superseding conditions and guidelines issued by the permitting agency. Deliverables: EAI will submit (electronically) monthly reports of all nesting beach monitoring activities to the County, including numbers of nests marked and fated within each phase of the Project Area. Task 4 - In -water Sea Turtle Monitoring (FDEP Specific Condition No. 32). EAI will assess sea turtle population levels in the nearshore area within and adjacent to the Sector 3 Project Area. This assessment will be conducted quarterly during the following time frames. June -August 2014, September -November 2014, and December 2014 -February 2015. The surveys will employ the same methodology and transect locations used since 2007. The methodology will include concurrent sampling of the Project Area and an appropriate control area to permit isolation of potential project effects from natural background variability. In -water surveys will be conducted from a boat equipped with an elevated observation platform and a GPS navigational system to allow constant monitoring of speed and location. The boat will traverse a series of 3 -kilometer long