PERMFILE102239

• Permit No: C1981016
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 12/11/2001
• Doc Name: Certificate, Articles of Incorporation & Amendment
• Section_Exhibit Name: APPENDIX IV Section IV.1
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

• ARTICLES OF AMENDMENT FILED in the ollice 01 Ih~ Secretary 0~
to the State o1 me State of Colorado
ARTICLES OP INCORPORATION
°f DEC 2 ~ ~9tn
WESTERN SLOPE CARBON, INC.
Pursuant to the provisions of the Colorado Corpora-
lion Act, the undersigned corporation adopts the following
Articles of Amendment to its Articles of Incorporation:
FIRST: The name of the corporation is WESTERN SLOPE
CARBON, INC.
SECOND: The following resolution, amending the
Articles of Incorporation of the corporation was adopted and
approved by unanimous written action of the shareholders of the
corporation as of December 12, 1974, in the manner prescribed
by the Colorado Corporation Act:
"WAEREAS, The Board of Directors of this
corporation by unanimous written action
as of December 12, 1914 have adopted and
approved by resolution of said Board an
amendment of the Articles of Incorporation
of this corporation amending Article THIRD
of said Articles to read as folloo:s:
'THIRD: To engage in the coal and
mining business in all its aspects
and in connection therewith, to buy,
sell, own, hold, use and deal in and
with coal and mining equipment, to
explore for, mine, develop, extract,
process, manufacture, buy, sell and
otherwise deal in and with coal and
other mineral products, to pledge any
or all of its assets as collateral
security for any indebtedness :whatso-
ever of any shareholder owning all
of the issued and outstanding shares
of the corporation, and do all other
acts or things as are incident to the
carrying on of such business and, in
pursuance thereof, to have all such
powers as are now or may be hereafter
conferred by the laws of the State of
Colorado on corporations generally.'
NOIP, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the fore-
going amendment of the Articles of Incorporation
be and the same is hereby adopted and approved
by the shareholders of this corporation, and that
Article THI CtD of the Articles of Incorporation of
this corporation be amended to read as herein set
forth."
THIRD: The uumber of shares of the corporation out-
• standing at the time of such adoption was 400,000 and the number
of shares entitled to vote thc:con was 400,000.