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ATTACHMENT A SCOPE OF SERVICES INDIAN RIVER COUNTY ARTIFICL9L REEF DEVELOPMENT PROJECT 2006-2007 Indian River County proposes to deploy between 24 and 48 designed concrete, heavy gauge steel or concrete and steel fabricated artificial reef structures at a depth of 70 feet within the Indian River County Reef Site 3 . The units will be deployed as a single large patch reef complex around the proposed location coordinates of 27° 53 . 910 ' N. ; 80° 13 .670 ' W. in the southwest corner of Site 3 . The center of Site 3 bears 77° and 12 .4 nautical miles from Sebastian Inlet. Site 3 is a rectangle with its long axis oriented north-south. The eastern and western sides of the site are 6,047 feet long and the north and south sides are 5 ,373 feet long. The site center coordinates are: 27° 54 .286 ' ; 80° 13 .292 ' W. The site, located in federal waters, is permitted to Indian River County by the U. S . Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers permit Number SAJ-2004-4393 (IP-TSB) and is valid until October 10, 2009. There are two prior reef deployments in this permitted area: 474 tons of railroad ties deployed in 1999 at the permit site center and 571 tons of railroad ties deployed in the northwest corner of the permitted site in 2000. Side scan sonar conducted of the site' s sand and shell hash sea floor in 2001 revealed no significant hard bottom habitat within or immediately adjacent to the reef permitted site. No submerged aquatic vegetation exists on the sea floor in Site 3 . There exists a ledge system approximately 2. 5 nautical miles west of Site 3 at a depth of 55 feet and a more extensive ledge system along the 90 feet contour approximately 2 . 5 nautical miles to the east. The nearest of the two railroad tie reefs in the permitted area is reef 3C, about 4,300 feet from the proposed deployment location. The objective of the proposed activity is to enhance recreational fishing opportunities and reduce fishing pressure on the natural ledge reef habitats. The intent will be to select, through competitive bid, a fabricated structure design, resistant to storm damage and movement at the depth placed and with a vertical height of 10 feet, a minimum volume of 100 cubic feet, and of a dome shape, pyramidal, or tetrahedron design. The units will be precision placed by being individually lowered by crane to the bottom and placed approximately 10-20 feet apart and occupying an area about 100 feet on a side, roughly equivalent to the footprint provided by the railroad tie reefs. If the number of modules that can be constructed and transported is closer to 48 than 24, construction of a second patch reef site will be considered. The reef construction activity to be funded consists of the following elements : LOADING AND TRANSPORTATION 1 . Loading and transportation of between 24 and 48 designed concrete, heavy gauge steel or concrete and steel fabricated artificial reef structures, or 2,000 tons of pre-cast concrete secondary use materials, concrete designed units, or other concrete structures acceptable to the COMMISSION. 2 . Load the concrete materials onto a suitable conveyance and transport to a site for loading onto a barge or other suitable vessel for offshore movement. Load the structures onto a vessel for transportation to the designated reef site. Provide a sufficiently powered transport or towing vessel, personnel, and all necessary equipment to transport the material offshore Page 1 of 5, Attachment A