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• • • SCOPE OF WORK Indian River County Beach Preservation Projects Environmental Document Preparation & Permit Authorizations for Planning Sectors 1 and 2 & Design Alternatives for Sector 7 Introduction: Following submittal of the Joint Coastal Permit Application for the Indian River County Beach Preservation Plan implementation in February 2000, the state and federal regulatory agencies have determined that the proposed project initiatives require separation and treatment as individual projects. This process will further require, at the insistence of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, the preparation of Environmental Assessment/Environmental Impact Statement documents for one of the four beach restoration project areas currently being considered by Indian River County. This area is referred to as Sector 1 & 2 (Sebastian Inlet State Recreation Area and Arnbersand). Preliminary investigation of viable alternatives will be investigated for the Sector 7 (South County) project. These Sector designations will be referenced throughout the remainder of the herein -proposed Scope of Work. The diversity and structure of the nearshore hardbottom resources in each of these project areas requires the individual (by project area) assessment of impact, from which alternatives analyses will be conducted to minimize such impacts and result in the most environmentally and economically viable projects. Efforts detailed herein will allow for the additional procedural and processing elements associated with preparation of a separate permit application for the Sector 1 & 2 beach restoration project in order to expedite individual project initiative progress through regulatory review and approval. The proposed scope of work allows for the completion of 1. Permit modification and processing of individual Joint Coastal Permits for the Sectors 1 & 2 project initiative, (includes responses to Requests for Additional Information, sea turtle protection, pipeline access corridor, mitigation, and biological & physical monitoring plans, computation of adjacent project area and secondary impact hardbottom acreages, borrow area composite mean grain size revised computations, Erosion Control Line establishment, and preparation of a summary videotape of each of the hardbottom communities mapped in summer 1999); 2. determination of secondary and cumulative impacts associated with project implementation for all Indian River County beach restoration project initiatives; 3. analysis of a structural component (groin field) to optimize sand placement and retention in Sector 7; 4. preparation of Environmental document for Sectors 1 and 2 beach restoration project initiative; and, 5. project progress meetings with County staff, advisory committees, the Board of County Commissioners, and regulatory agency personnel to review status of Sectors 1 and 2 project permitting and environmental documents, and Sector 7 alternatives analysis.