diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ed29403116..dad4a7f5fb 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-## 0.16.9-dev0
+## 0.16.9
 
 ### Enhancements
 
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
 
 ### Fixes
 
+- **Fix NLTK Download** to not download from unstructured S3 Bucket
+
 ## 0.16.8
 
 ### Enhancements
diff --git a/test_unstructured/nlp/test_tokenize.py b/test_unstructured/nlp/test_tokenize.py
index 5d2c385b4d..f0262484cd 100644
--- a/test_unstructured/nlp/test_tokenize.py
+++ b/test_unstructured/nlp/test_tokenize.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 
 
 def test_nltk_packages_download_if_not_present():
+    tokenize._download_nltk_packages_if_not_present.cache_clear()
     with patch.object(nltk, "find", side_effect=LookupError):
         with patch.object(tokenize, "download_nltk_packages") as mock_download:
             tokenize._download_nltk_packages_if_not_present()
@@ -16,6 +17,7 @@ def test_nltk_packages_download_if_not_present():
 
 
 def test_nltk_packages_do_not_download_if():
+    tokenize._download_nltk_packages_if_not_present.cache_clear()
     with patch.object(nltk, "find"), patch.object(nltk, "download") as mock_download:
         tokenize._download_nltk_packages_if_not_present()
 
diff --git a/unstructured/__version__.py b/unstructured/__version__.py
index 33e6f1b565..60597c11bc 100644
--- a/unstructured/__version__.py
+++ b/unstructured/__version__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "0.16.9-dev0"  # pragma: no cover
+__version__ = "0.16.9"  # pragma: no cover
diff --git a/unstructured/nlp/tokenize.py b/unstructured/nlp/tokenize.py
index 9f438ed1d4..f26770d53f 100644
--- a/unstructured/nlp/tokenize.py
+++ b/unstructured/nlp/tokenize.py
@@ -1,11 +1,6 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
-import hashlib
 import os
-import sys
-import tarfile
-import tempfile
-import urllib.request
 from functools import lru_cache
 from typing import Final, List, Tuple
 
@@ -16,86 +11,10 @@
 
 CACHE_MAX_SIZE: Final[int] = 128
 
-NLTK_DATA_FILENAME = "nltk_data_3.8.2.tar.gz"
-NLTK_DATA_URL = f"https://utic-public-cf.s3.amazonaws.com/{NLTK_DATA_FILENAME}"
-NLTK_DATA_SHA256 = "ba2ca627c8fb1f1458c15d5a476377a5b664c19deeb99fd088ebf83e140c1663"
-
-
-# NOTE(robinson) - mimic default dir logic from NLTK
-# https://github.com/nltk/nltk/
-# 	blob/8c233dc585b91c7a0c58f96a9d99244a379740d5/nltk/downloader.py#L1046
-def get_nltk_data_dir() -> str | None:
-    """Locates the directory the nltk data will be saved too. The directory
-    set by the NLTK environment variable takes highest precedence. Otherwise
-    the default is determined by the rules indicated below. Returns None when
-    the directory is not writable.
-
-        On Windows, the default download directory is
-        ``PYTHONHOME/lib/nltk``, where *PYTHONHOME* is the
-        directory containing Python, e.g. ``C:\\Python311``.
-
-        On all other platforms, the default directory is the first of
-        the following which exists or which can be created with write
-        permission: ``/usr/share/nltk_data``, ``/usr/local/share/nltk_data``,
-        ``/usr/lib/nltk_data``, ``/usr/local/lib/nltk_data``, ``~/nltk_data``.
-    """
-    # Check if we are on GAE where we cannot write into filesystem.
-    if "APPENGINE_RUNTIME" in os.environ:
-        return
-
-    # Check if we have sufficient permissions to install in a
-    # variety of system-wide locations.
-    for nltkdir in nltk.data.path:
-        if os.path.exists(nltkdir) and nltk.internals.is_writable(nltkdir):
-            return nltkdir
-
-    # On Windows, use %APPDATA%
-    if sys.platform == "win32" and "APPDATA" in os.environ:
-        homedir = os.environ["APPDATA"]
-
-    # Otherwise, install in the user's home directory.
-    else:
-        homedir = os.path.expanduser("~/")
-        if homedir == "~/":
-            raise ValueError("Could not find a default download directory")
-
-    # NOTE(robinson) - NLTK appends nltk_data to the homedir. That's already
-    # present in the tar file so we don't have to do that here.
-    return homedir
-
 
 def download_nltk_packages():
-    nltk_data_dir = get_nltk_data_dir()
-
-    if nltk_data_dir is None:
-        raise OSError("NLTK data directory does not exist or is not writable.")
-
-    # Check if the path ends with "nltk_data" and remove it if it does
-    if nltk_data_dir.endswith("nltk_data"):
-        nltk_data_dir = os.path.dirname(nltk_data_dir)
-
-    def sha256_checksum(filename: str, block_size: int = 65536):
-        sha256 = hashlib.sha256()
-        with open(filename, "rb") as f:
-            for block in iter(lambda: f.read(block_size), b""):
-                sha256.update(block)
-        return sha256.hexdigest()
-
-    with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as temp_dir_path:
-        tgz_file_path = os.path.join(temp_dir_path, NLTK_DATA_FILENAME)
-        urllib.request.urlretrieve(NLTK_DATA_URL, tgz_file_path)
-
-        file_hash = sha256_checksum(tgz_file_path)
-        if file_hash != NLTK_DATA_SHA256:
-            os.remove(tgz_file_path)
-            raise ValueError(f"SHA-256 mismatch: expected {NLTK_DATA_SHA256}, got {file_hash}")
-
-        # Extract the contents
-        if not os.path.exists(nltk_data_dir):
-            os.makedirs(nltk_data_dir)
-
-        with tarfile.open(tgz_file_path, "r:gz") as tar:
-            tar.extractall(path=nltk_data_dir)
+    nltk.download("averaged_perceptron_tagger_eng", quiet=True)
+    nltk.download("punkt_tab", quiet=True)
 
 
 def check_for_nltk_package(package_name: str, package_category: str) -> bool:
@@ -109,10 +28,13 @@ def check_for_nltk_package(package_name: str, package_category: str) -> bool:
     try:
         nltk.find(f"{package_category}/{package_name}", paths=paths)
         return True
-    except LookupError:
+    except (LookupError, OSError):
         return False
 
 
+# We cache this because we do not want to attempt
+# downloading the packages multiple times
+@lru_cache()
 def _download_nltk_packages_if_not_present():
     """If required NLTK packages are not available, download them."""