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AMENDMENT NUMBER 1 TO THE BIOLOGICAL MONITORING PLAN SECTORS 1 &2 BEACH RESTORATION PROJECT January 31 , 2003 This Amendment to the final Biological Monitoring Plan dated October 2002 for the Indian River County Sectors 1 &2 beach restoration project (FDEP Permit #0166929-0014C) makes the following modifications to the document: Section 3 . 1 Nearshore Hardbottom Monitoring 1 . All tasks identified in this section will be conducted in the winter season prior to project construction and semi-annually thereafter. Winter sampling will be conducted in the period from November through February and summer sampling will be conducted in the period from June through August. The monitoring data shall be collected as close as practical to the same dates each year. There will be a total of six (6) monitoring events as follows: Winter 2002-2003 Summer 2003 Winter 2003-2004 Summer 2004 Winter 2004-2005 Summer 2005 2. Three additional transects will be added to the six proposed in the Monitoring Plan, for a total of nine transects. Anew transect will be established at R49, which in conjunction with the existing transect at R-22 will be designated as downdrift transects. The existing transect at R-25 and two additional transects at R33 and R-34 will be designated as control transects. The additional transects will be sampled on the same schedule as the other transects, with the exception that the initial sampling of these additional transects will occur concurrent with project construction. Section 3 . 1 . 1 Sessile Reef Biota 3 . In conjunction with the qualitative videography to be collected along each of the transects, video footage will be collected in a manner that will allow for quantitative measurement of percent cover of reef biota. On each transect, two twenty-meter (20 m) segments in the vicinity of the photoquadrat stations will be sampled by the following technique: • The observer will swim at a constant elevation of 45 to 50 cm above the substrate and film vertically while swimming at a very slow rate of forward progress along the full extent of the 20 m segment • The resulting video images will be analyzed digitally to provide estimates of percent cover of algae and total percent cover. A revised Plan reflecting the above changes (which will include revisions to the report text, tables and figures where appropriate) will be provided to the Bureau of Beaches and Wetland Resources on or before Friday, February 14, 2003 .