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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="'font-family:" "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;'><font size="3">Vale Newfoundland & Labrador Limited (VNL) is committed to implementing an Environmental Effects Monitoring (EEM) Program associated with its Mine and Concentrator operation, and to that end has prepared an EEM Plan that has been approved by the provincial Minister of Environment and Conversation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Monitoring targets identified for the terrestrial program include red berries, and red-backed vole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="'font-family:" "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;'></span></p><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="'font-family:" "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;' style="mso-list: Ignore;"><font size="3">1.</font><span style="'font:" 7pt/normal "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;'>    </span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="'font-family:" "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;'><font size="3">SCOPE OF WORK</font></span></h1><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="'font-family:" "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;'></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="'font-family:" "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;'><font size="3">This Request for Proposals (RFPs) describes the scope of work required to address Terrestrial Monitoring for 2018 and 2020 as identified in the Vale Environmental Effects Monitoring (EEM) Plan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">   </span></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="'font-family:" "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;'></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="'font-family:" "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;'><font size="3">This scope of work is based on the study design, methodology and the schedule identified in the EEM Plan to conduct field survey data collection for red berries and red-backed voles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>At a minimum, the consultant request for proposal must address these in the RFP document in addition to provision of relevant experience and expertise of all study members, and identification of local aboriginal involvement in the study.</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="'font-family:" "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;'></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="'font-family:" "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;'><font size="3">Details on the study design are provided in section 3 of this document.</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="'font-family:" "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;'></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="'font-family:" "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;'><font size="3">This contract would begin in 2018 and expire in four years.</font></span></p><p><br /></p>