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REV: 07-15-24 LF EXHIBIT “A” SCOPE OF SERVICES AND FEE The City is implementing the Belmont Slough Levee Failure Repair Project (“Project”) to repair a failed levee section along the Bay Trail on Belmont Slough (37.539752 - 122.253614) in Redwood City. Consultant will provide the services described below during Project construction. Task 1. Biological Compliance Surveys, Monitoring, and Reporting Consultant’s biologist(s) will conduct a pre-construction survey for special status wildlife species and nesting birds within all construction areas and proposed staging areas and access routes. The survey will be conducted within 7 days prior to initial construction activities. Consultant will provide written communication of the preliminary survey results to the City’s Project Manager within 24-hours following the survey. Protocol-level species surveys are not included under this task. In addition, Consultant will prepare and conduct a pre-construction environmental training covering sensitive species and resources that may be in the work area. The training will include a general discussion of the biology and behavior of sensitive species potentially occurring in work area and procedures in the event that sensitive species are encountered. Consultant will prepare and distribute training material for workers to carry on-site. Trainings will be held on-site prior to initiating work. During Project construction, Consultant will provide daily biological monitoring. The construction area will require temporary dewatering and diversion. Consultant will observe dewatering activities and rescue and relocate stranded aquatic life in the dewatered area. Consultant will maintain a record of all fish and/or aquatic wildlife rescued and moved during dewatering. Consultant will maintain a monitoring log to record monitoring activities. The log will provide brief notes after each visit that will include the name of the biologist onsite, dates and times of monitoring, description of activities monitored, species observations and relocations, and recommended protective measures if regulated species are observed. Photographs will also be taken to document site conditions during monitoring. This scope of work assumes biological monitoring will be required for up to 10 working days. If wildlife is detected in the construction area, the monitoring biologist will have the authority to stop work until the species has moved out of the construction area or has been safely relocated. If federal or state listed species are encountered during the surveys and/or monitoring, Consultant will inform the City’s Project Manager and shall contact the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and/or CDFW for further guidance. Following Project completion, Consultant will prepare a brief memorandum (memo) that will include survey methods, personnel, species observations, and monitoring results. The daily monitoring log and representative photos will be included with the memo as ATTY/AGR.2024.107/Montrose Environmental (Belmont Slough Levee Repair) (Page 11 of 13)