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Ob 40 40 Task 7 Final Review Meeting with County Staff and Corps of Engineers. The contractor will submit the Draft Final Environmental Assessment to the County and Corps for review. The contractor will meet with the County and Corps to discuss the document and incorporate any final comments. Task 8 Prepare Final Environmental Assessment. The contractor will prepare the Final Environmental Assessment and FONSI for use by the Corps to issue the Section 404 permit. One original, five hard copies, and an electronic copy in Adobe Acrobat will be provided to the Corps for posting on their web site. One original, 10 copies and an electronic copy will be provided to the county. Task 9 Complete Marine Resource Mapping for Remainder of County. The contractor will complete marine resource mapping for the remainder of the county utilizing the same ERDAS software and imaging analysis technique used for existing maps. This analysis will include mapping of nearshore hardbottom along the remainder of the county's shoreline (14 miles). Since no plans presently exist for beach restoration along the additional 14 miles of shoreline the amount of ground-truthing of aerial signatures required can be minimized. Hardground cover types previously classified will be used for these additional areas. Due to limited time to complete the draft EA it is anticipated that draft maps will be prepared for analysis prior to any field verification. Field verification will be scheduled from May -August 2001. To verify aerial signatures (cover types) no more than three transects per mile (total 42 transects) will be surveyed during the summer using an Integrated Video Mapping System. Draft and final resource maps will be provided to the county in hard copy and electronic format. A summary of acreages of marine cover types found throughout the county will be prepared to assist in preparation of the cumulative impact section of the EA. Task 10 Prepare Cumulative Impact Assessment Report. The contractor will prepare a cumulative impact assessment report which addresses the impact of beach restoration activities in the past, present and foreseeable future on nearshore hardground habitat and associated biological communities; sea turtle nesting area, activities and foraging habitat; and fisheries resources. This assessment will follow methodology recommended by the Corps of Engineers and EPA and will include a trend analysis of resource conditions and area from 1972 to 2010 (see attached outline). The trend analysis will include delineating the nearshore limits of hardground from 1972 survey transects and graphically comparing them to the 1999 survey limits. Assuming erosion has lead to increased acreage of hardground habitat throughout most of the county, this analysis should indicate the location and actual area of changes in hardground habitat to present time. Impacts from past activities would be determined from reviewing Inlet Tax District records and permits for the beach fill template south of Sebastian Inlet. Any other permitted activities would be assessed to determine whether they had any impact on marine resources. The county will provide a breakdown of proposed direct impacts for all segments which may be nourished by 2010, as well as a summary of other structural or non-structural shoreline protection projects either constructed since 1972 or anticipated prior to 2010. Projecting indirect impacts of the proposed project and other segments, if funded and constructed, would require modeling of sediment spreading for segment I and 2 and using the results of this effort as an assumption of likely indirect impacts for the other three segments. Temporal impacts due to renourishment events would also be analyzed. The County's engineering consultant will develop the sediment spreading model and provide the results of the analysis to the contractor for this assessment. Analysis of trends in sea turtle nesting area will be completed by spatially analyzing the area of dry beach available for nesting in 1972 and 1999. It is assumed the 1972 survey data compiled by the state will be usable in determining the area of dry beach in 1972. Nesting data will be compiled from the county and state agencies, summarized and correlated to observed changes in beach nesting area, false crawls and other available information.