Okaloosa County BOCC — January 19, 2016 — FWC Grant — reading text

piled to achieve a vertical relief of 10 – 15 feet with a foot print of approximately 50 feet in diameter or may be a lower profile more linear reef covering a rectangular area of approximately 40 feet by 100 feet with an average vertical relief of not less than four feet. FH 15 and 16 are located in state waters of the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 10.2 and 14.2 nautical miles west south-west of East Pass, respectively. The artificial reef construction activity to be funded consists of the following elements: MATERIALS 1. Artificial reef materials shall consist of concrete culverts, beams, manholes, and used and unused concrete or concrete and steel military pre-cast target materials secured from staging areas on Eglin Air Force Base and acceptable to the COMMISSION following a final on site materials inspection by the COMMISSION’s Contract Manager. At least 80% by number of individual artificial reef military target units or culverts shall be sufficiently intact to withstand movement and handling without breaking up and must weigh at least 1,000 pounds each. No more than 20% of the remaining pieces or units by number once loaded on the deployment vessel shall consist of smaller concrete units or concrete rubble with each rubble piece or unit weighing at least 500-1,000 pounds prior to deployment. All Version 1.0 – June 2013 Attachment A, Page 1 of 12  Attachment A – SCOPE OF WORK Project Name: Okaloosa County Artificial Reef FWC Agreement No. 15274 Construction 2016-17 materials shall be clean and free from asphalt, creosote, petroleum, or other hydrocarbons and toxic residues, loose free floating material or other deleterious substances. No topsoil or organic material such as vegetation shall be included in material deployments. If pre- cast concrete reinforced with steel rebar is utilized, no exposed rebar shall extend more than six inches beyond the concrete surface. 2. The GRANTEE agrees to allow the COMMISSION to conduct on-site inspections of the artificial reef materials before, during, and after the deployment. The GRANTEE shall meet with the COMMISSION’s Contract Manager to conduct an initial joint review of proposed stockpiled pre-cast concrete materials located on Okaloosa County property and on one or more Eglin Air Force Base test firing ranges. Following this initial staging area inspection and follow up discussion, the GRANTEE will provide to the COMMISSION’s Contract Manager an updated inventory of staging area materials recommended for artificial reef utilization. The GRANTEE and the COMMISSION’s Contract Manager, utilizing the GRANTEE’s updated materials inventory lists and representative photos, shall jointly conduct a final on site review of available used pre-cast target material and concrete culverts. The GRANTEE and COMMISSION shall jointly evaluate the structural integrity of each concrete unit proposed for use, and shall eliminate from artificial reef material consideration all badly damaged material that would be prone to break apart into pieces less than 500 pounds in weight during the handling and transport process. Units with extensive exposed rebar will either be eliminated from consideration or the rebar will be cut back by the selected contractor to within six inches or less of the units’ concrete surface prior to transport. Only materials jointly approved by the COMMISSION and GRANTEE will be authorized for deployment. The GRANTEE shall mark at the staging areas the materials selected for use by the GRANTEE and COMMISSION’s Contract Manager to assist the selected contractor in identifying which materials are to be moved from the County and Air Force base staging areas to the dockside staging location and vessel loading site. LOADING AND TRANSPORTATION 3. Artificial reef materials will be loaded using a suitable means of conveyance for transportation from the Okaloosa County solid waste staging area and Eglin Air Force Base target range staging areas to a dockside staging site and loading onto a barge or other suitable vessel for offshore transportation to the designated artificial reef sites. Offshore transportation shall be provided by a sufficiently powered transport or towing vessel, personnel, and all necessary equipment to transport the material offshore and deploy it. Reef material loaded on to the transporting vessel must be properly secured in compliance with Coast Guard standards to allow for its safe transport to the reef construction site. 4. The GRANTEE's Project Manager shall complete the FWC Artificial Reef Cargo Manifest form to be maintained onboard the contractor’s vessel at all times during transport of materials, pursuant to Chapter 379.249, Florida Statutes. The Cargo Manifest shall be current and include a one paragraph description of the concrete material to be deployed on that particular day at sea as well as the location(s) of the targeted reef deployments. The FWC Artificial Reef Cargo Manifest form is available on the COMMISSION’s website: http://www.myfwc.com/conservation/saltwater/artificial-reefs. For Version 1.0 – June 2013 Attachment A, Page 2 of 12  Attachment A – SCOPE OF WORK Project Name: Okaloosa County Artificial Reef FWC Agreement No. 15274 Construction 2016-17 each barge load of artificial reef materials, the GRANTEE shall calculate the tonnage (either using before and after barge draft calculations, trucking receipts, or the known weights of individual pieces or reef units), and take a representative photograph of the artificial reef material on the barge or other deployment vessel immediately prior to deployment. DEPLOYMENT AND MATERIALS PLACEMENT 5. During the deployment of the artificial reef material, the transport vessel must be effectively moored through double anchoring, be spudded down, or otherwise be held securely in place with minimal movement (+/-20 feet) to ensure accurate placement of the concrete patch reef on the bottom. Material must be arranged to provide habitat complexity as well as provide sand bottom forage area opportunities. Individual reef materials should not be widely scattered. Any machinery used to move and deploy the reef materials should be sufficiently powered/maneuverable and capably operated to ensure timely, effective and safe off-loading of materials. The tug or transport vessel shall meet all U.S. Coast Guard certification and safety requirements, be equipped with a working, accurate Global Positioning System (GPS) unit and other marine electronics including a working VHF radio. Effective and reliable communications shall exist at all times between the transport vessel, and the designated GRANTEE observer on site. Deployment operations will only be initiated when sea height in the operations area is no greater than two to four feet as forecast by the nearest NOAA weather office. Either the COMMISSION’s observer, the GRANTEE's observer or the subcontractor’s vessel captain reserves the right to suspend off-loading operations if positioning and other deployment objectives, including safety of personnel and equipment, are not being met. 6. The tonnage of artificial reef material proposed for reef deployment by the contractor selected through the competitive bidding process will be based on an available funding amount of $60,000 provided by the COMMISSION and a $67,000 match provided by the GRANTEE under this Agreement will be divided between two patch reefs. The tonnage of reef material available for artificial reef construction shall be distributed approximately equally between the permit area center points of the forty acre Fish Haven locations 15 and 16 in state waters of the Gulf of Mexico off Okaloosa County. Table 1 defines the permitted reef area center point locations and depths which are the proposed patch reef locations. Table 1 Patch Latitude Longitude Permitted Reef Reef Area Name Name Depth (ft) Fish Haven 15 CTR-3 30° 21.891' N 86° 42.374' W -67 ft MLLW Fish Haven 16 CTR-4 30° 20.891' N 86° 46.874' W -69 ft MLLW 7. The minimum vertical navigational clearances at Mean Lower Low Water (MLLW) as specified in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers regulatory authorizations shall be maintained above the highest point of each patch reef in the Fish Haven 15 and 16 permitted areas. The authorized navigational clearance at both permit sites is -38 feet-MLLW, as Version 1.0 – June 2013 Attachment A, Page 3 of 12  Attachment A – SCOPE OF WORK Project Name: Okaloosa County Artificial Reef FWC Agreement No. 15274 Construction 2016-17 stated in the the respective US Army Corps of Engineers permits SAJ-2012-03221(SP- SWA) (Fish Haven 15) and SAJ-2012-03222(SP-SWA)(Fish Haven 16). 8. The GRANTEE's Contract Manager or GRANTEE's designated official observer shall observe and verify the accurate temporary marking by the contractor of the reef deployment locations to facilitate the contractor’s proper vessel positioning prior to anchoring in advance of reef materials deployment and to ensure the proper placement of the artificial reef materials at the center points of each artificial reef permitted area as indicated in Paragraph 6, Table 1. The markers shall be buoys of sufficient size and color to be clearly visible to the deployment vessel captain, and sufficiently anchored and with sufficient scope so that the buoys will not drift off the designated deployment site prior to deployment. The COMMISSION will not pay for materials placed outside the boundaries of the permitted reef areas as described in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers regulatory permits indicated in Paragraph 7, above. Precise GPS placement of marker buoys that do not shift position during deployment operations are important toinsure the reef