The proposed project is to purchase properties which are necessary for a future setback levee on the right bank of the White River between River miles 3.9 and 4.9. With these funds, one of the larger willing sellers of the remaining 9 properties will be acquired both preventing potential future development and allowing the area to be used for a setback levee. This setback levee, which is identified in the lead entities Salmon Habitat and Restoration Plan, will create important rearing habitat which is near nonexistent in the Lower White River for Fall and Spring Chinook species.