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r Coastal Engineer Jeffrey K Tabar confirmed that the County has FEMA eligibility. He had spent the last three days with several different emergency response disaster teams looking at the county's shoreline and identifying areas that will qualify for federal disaster monies to build temporary berms. He spent the prior day with the Florida Beaches and Coastal Systems Bureau looking at the possibility of beach scraping. They indicated they wanted the County to do a few things before they will release authorization for beach scraping. The County had entered into an agreement with the State prohibiting the County from allowing beach scraping without written department authorization. Mr. Tabar felt from his own assessment that the beaches cannot take a minor storm without losing homes. The department had not yet released their authorization to scrape. Vice Chairman Adams questioned the County's abilities under the agreement, and County Attorney Vituna.c advised he had checked with Mr. Tabar yesterday and advised that the agreement actually says "no beach scraping without their permission." Mr. Tabar had stated that he felt he would get permission from them yesterday because it was such a serious event and that everyone from the top down with the Department ofEnvironmentalProtection was aware of the problem. Mr. Tabar advised of two limitations they are putting on the beach scraping: they are requiring that the County do a county -wide post storm beach profile survey and also coordinate with the State's "turtle folks on a site-specific situation". Commissioner Ginn asked what the Board's recourse is, and Mr. Collins stated he had spoken with Robert Brantley who acknowledged the situation and advised they do not recommend beach scraping but they would not "lay in front of " the bulldozer. Mr. Collins affirmed that he was not in a position to wait for the permission of the SEPTEMBER 21, 1999 40