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Indian River County Sector 3 Beach and Dune Restoration Project Page 3 Exhibit A — 2013 Scope of Work 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 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 5 and 6 will be performed under Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) Marine Turtle Permit TP -010 in accordance with current or future superseding conditions and guidelines issued by the permitting agency. 7) In-water Sea Turtle Monitoring (FDEP Special 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 2013 , September-November 2013 , December 2012-February 2014 and March-May 2014 . The surveys will employ the same methodology and transect locations used in the 2007 Sector 3 Baseline Study of nearshore sea turtle abundance conducted by Inwater Research Group (IRG) for Coastal Technology Corporation and the COUNTY. 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 transects (three each within the Treatment and Control sites) at slow and constant speed (5 - 6 knots) . The County shall provide EAI with the end point GPS coordinates for each transect to ensure seamless transition in monitoring effort from IRG to EAI. Two experienced biologists will be positioned on the platform and will make observations at an eye level of approximately 12 ft above the water; one will monitor the port side and the other the starboard side . When a turtle is sighted, the position of the vessel at the time of the sighting will be recorded by GPS . The position of the turtle will be mapped based on the position of the boat and the observer' s estimate of the distance and bearing to the turtle . In addition to recording the position of the turtle, the observer will also record the time the turtle was first observed, the species, its relative size, and whether it was at the surface or submerged .