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Acronyms: DEP or FDEP — Florida Department of Environmental Protection F.A.C. — Florida Administrative Code F.S. — Florida Statutes FWC — Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission JCP — Joint Coastal Permit TASKS and DELIVERABLES: For all tasks identified below, the Local Sponsor will provide detailed scopes of work or a letter requesting advance payment, which shall include a narrative description of work to be completed, a corresponding cost estimate and a proposed schedule of completion for the proposed work and associated deliverables. Each scope of work shall be approved in writing by the DEP Project Manager to be included into this work plan for reimbursement. Task 1: Monitoring State and federal monitoring required by permit is eligible for reimbursement pursuant to program statute and rule. In order to comply with Florida Auditor General report 2014-064 regarding conflicts of interest and to be consistent with Section 287.057(17)(a)(1), F.S., all monitoring data and statistical analysis must be provided directly and concurrently from the monitoring contractor to the Department/Local Sponsor permittee/engineering consultant. The Local Sponsor's engineering consultant must provide an adequate mitigation plan, consistent with section. 287.057(17)(a)(1), F.S., including a description of organizational, physical, and electronic barriers to be used by the Local Sponsor's engineering consultant, that addresses conflicts of interest when contracting multi -disciplinary firms for Project engineering and post -construction environmental monitoring services, or when the Project engineering consultant firm subcontracts for post - construction environmental monitoring. Environmental monitoring includes hardbottom, seagrass, and mangrove resources. Department approval of the consultant's mitigation plan will be required prior to execution of this Agreement. If at any time the Local Sponsor and/or its engineering consultant fails to comply with this provision, the Local Sponsor agrees to reimburse the Department all funds provided by the Department associated with environmental monitoring for the Project listed. Task Description: This task includes activities associated with permit -required monitoring conducted in accordance with the conditions specified by state or federal regulatory agencies. All monitoring tasks must be located within or adjacent to the Project area and follow the Department's Regional Coastal Monitoring Program and FWC's marine turtle and shorebird monitoring programs. Guidance for monitoring of nearshore resources is available in the Department's Standard Operation Procedures For Nearshore Hardbottom Monitoring Of Beach Nourishment Projects. The Local Sponsor must submit work products directly to the appropriate state or federal regulatory agencies in accordance with permit conditions to be eligible for reimbursement under this task, unless otherwise directed. Deliverable: For each interim or final payment, the Local Sponsor will provide a Task Summary Report containing; 1) An itemized listing of all monitoring activities completed or in progress during the payment request period and, 2) Documentation of submittal to state and federal regulatory agencies of completed monitoring data, surveys and final reports for permit -required work under this task description. Performance Standard: The DEP Project Manager will review the task deliverable and any associated work products as necessary to verify they meet the specifications in the Grant Work Plan and this task description. DEP Agreement No. 17IR2, Amendment 1, Attachment 3-A, Page 2 of 3