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i 1 . 0 INTRODUCTION IIndian River County has filed a Joint Coastal Permit application with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) and the U. S . Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to construct a beach restoration project along 13 ,280 feet of County shoreline, identified in project documents as Sectors 1 & 2 (Applied Technology and Management, Inc . , 2001 )(Figure 1 ) . The Biological Monitoring Plan includes provisions for monitoring and impact assessment of the project on marine turtle nesting, foraging, and nearshore reef habitats . A section on physical monitoring of project impacts with the potential to affect biological resources (i. e . , turbidity, sand compaction, and beach scarp formation) is also included. Elements in this plan include physical monitoring of sand compaction, scarp formation, Iand turbidity. The plan also contains marine turtle monitoring, including both nesting and hatching success and evaluations of foraging habitat utilization. Nearshore reef monitoring will include assessments of both sessile reef fauna and fish communities. Locations for monitoring activities proposed in this plan are referenced to FDEP reference monuments, the locations of which are provided in Table 1 . The plan is divided into sections on Onshore Monitoring, Nearshore Monitoring, and Offshore Monitoring. Onshore monitoring includes marine turtle nesting surveys, sediment compaction monitoring, and escarpment formation monitoring . Included in Nearshore Monitoring are efforts to determine the extent, condition and biota of nearshore hardbottom reefs, monitoring along the Toe of Fill (TOF) and pipeline corridor(s), studies of marine turtle foraging habitat utilization, and turbidity monitoring during project construction. Offshore monitoring consists of turbidity monitoring in the vicinity of the borrow area during construction. I I I 1 1