The restoration of the nearshore is a priority action of the Puget Sound Action Agenda for the South Sound, and is a key part of the salmon recovery strategy in the West Sound lead entity & PSS recovery plan. The project reach, within Penrose Point State Park, on Case Inlet in So. Puget Sound, exhibits all of the key nearshore habitat types including: an active feeder bluff, mature riparian forest, surf smelt spawning, low sloping beaches that lead into a small eelgrass bed and an estuarine embayment. However, habitat and habitat forming processes in the park have been impaired by a 750-foot long creosote bulkhead with rip rap toe protection that sits at approximately 11-feet tidal elevation. This project developed final designs and permits documents for complete removal of the creosote bulkhead, rip rap armor and fill along a bluff backed beach in Penrose Point State Park on the Key Peninsula. Removal of the bulkhead will reconnect bluff and riparian processes to the nearshore ecosystem, restore sediment transport process, improve the beach profile for rearing and foraging salmonids, specifically fry migrant Chinook, chum and pink salmon, and enhance forage fish spawning habitat. The bulkhead sits between a divergence zone at the head of a long, natural low tide spit, at the upstream end of drift cell which is approximately ½ mile long. Currently final designs are complete and permit documents have been prepared. As part of this project, we have met onsite with many of the regulatory review agencies to gather comment on project design in preparation of permit submittals. The project has been reviewed through SEPA with a determination of non-significance. The cultural resources assessment and section 106 consultation has been completed. Project construction is projected for September 2012-March 2013 pending funding.