Exhibit 3.1

CERTIFICATE OF ELIMINATION

OF

SERIES A JUNIOR PREFERRED STOCK

OF

AK STEEL HOLDING CORPORATION

(Pursuant to Section 151(g) of the

Delaware General Corporation Law)

 AK STEEL HOLDING CORPORATION, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (the “Company”),

 DOES HEREBY CERTIFY:

 FIRST: That the Board of Directors of the Company, at a meeting duly held on May 4, 2011, pursuant to notice, at which a quorum was present and acting throughout, duly adopted the following resolutions:

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that no shares of the Series A Junior Preferred Stock are outstanding and that no shares of the Series A Junior Preferred Stock will be issued subject to the Certificate of Designations filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on February 5, 1996 with respect to the Series A Junior Preferred Stock;

FURTHER RESOLVED, that pursuant to the authority conferred on the Board of Directors by the provisions of Section 151(g) of the Delaware General Corporation Law, the Board hereby eliminates the Series A Junior Preferred Stock;

 FURTHER RESOLVED,that any of the President and Chief Executive Officer, any Executive Vice President, Senior Vice President or Vice President, the Treasurer, the Secretary and any Assistant Secretary, any one of whom may act without the joinder of any of the others, be, and each of them hereby is, authorized to prepare, execute and file, or cause to be prepared, executed and filed, with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware, a certificate of elimination pursuant to Section 151(g) of the Delaware General Corporation Law setting forth these resolutions in order to eliminate from the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, all matters set forth in the Certificate of Designations with respect to the Series A Junior Preferred Stock;

 SECOND:  Pursuant to Section 151(g) of the Delaware General Corporation Law, upon the effective date of the filing of this Certificate of Elimination, there shall be eliminated from the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, all matters set forth in the Certificate of Designations with respect to the Series A Junior Preferred Stock.

 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Certificate of Elimination to be signed by its duly authorized officer on May 4, 2011.

AK STEEL HOLDING CORPORATION
By:	/s/ David C. Horn
	David C. Horn Executive Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel