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CERTIFICATION ON LAST PAGE RYAN L. BUTLER, CLERK Indian River County Work Order Number — 2023051-5 Sector 4 Dune Restoration Project Exhibit 1 - Scope of Work Task 2 - Lighting Surveys: Per FDEP Specific Condition 15 and SPBO "Measure" A10, COASTAL TECH via subcontract with EAI will perform the required Post -Construction Lighting Surveys (a) "between May 1 and May 15" 2025, and (b) "between July 15 and August 1" 2025. For each survey, EAI will: • document the location (sub -meter GPS coordinates), number and type of lights visible from the beach and not in compliance with Indian River County's lighting regulations - with photos of lights visible from the beach; • within 30 days of the survey - prepare a written report and Excel spreadsheet summarizing survey results including recommendations for correcting non-compliant lights; • participate in a meeting with COASTAL TECH, the COUNTY, FWC, and USFWS to discuss the survey results if requested by the COUNTY; and • conduct up to twenty (20) additional site specific lighting surveys — as may be requested by FWC and the COUNTY - from the crest of the reconstructed dune in areas with documented nesting on top of or landward of the reconstructed dune. Task 3 — Sea Turtle & Shorebird Monitoring: COASTAL TECH will subcontract with EAI to perform Task 3 monitoring for potential impacts to nesting sea turtles and shorebirds. Following completion of construction or beginning on March 1, 2025 (whichever is later), to monitor nesting sea turtles, EAI will: • conduct daily morning sea turtle nesting surveys either on foot or using ATVs of the Project Area and a Reference Area (a nearby beach with similar characteristics that is outside of the influence of the Project) - within 30 minutes of sunrise through November 11, 2025, or until 15 days without a crawl in the Project or Reference Areas, whichever is earlier; • request a waiver from the USFWS and FWC to discontinue daily sea turtle monitoring if there is a fifteen -day period where no crawls are documented in the Project or Reference Areas; if USFWS and FWC permission is granted, EAI will then perform surveys three days per week to monitor marked nests; • interpret emergences (turtle crawls) apparent from the previous night to determine which species of turtle came ashore and whether it nested; • denote for each apparent crawl: o the approximate geographic location (sub -meter GPS coordinates), o as being above or below the previous high tide line, o whether nesting or and non -nesting emergences (false crawls) - with each false crawl assigned to one of the following categories denoting the stage at which the nesting attempt was abandoned: no digging, abandoned body pit, or abandoned egg cavity, and o any obstacles encountered by turtles during their crawls; document — using FWC's electronic Marine Turtle Hatchling Disorientation Incident Report Form - any observed evidence of hatchling misorientation or disorientation from either marked or unmarked nests - including, as based on track evaluations, an estimate of the number of hatchlings disoriented and observable light sources potentially responsible for the disorientation identified —with documentation forwarded by email to COASTALTECH and the COUNTY so appropriate remedial action may be taken by the COUNTY; respond to the stranding of sick, injured, and dead sea turtles within the survey area by o examining the animals, and if alive, transported the animals to state approved care facilities, and o completing and submitting a standard Sea Turtle Stranding and Salvage data form to FWC in accordance with established FWC guidelines; Page 2 of 3 January 23, 2025