As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 9, 2016

Registration Nos. 333-190861

333-156593

333-32777

 

 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-190861

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-156593

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-32777

 

UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

ARCH COAL, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

One CityPlace Drive, Suite 300

St. Louis, Missouri  63141

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

 

Arch Coal, Inc. and Subsidiaries Employee Thrift Plan
(Full title of the plan)

 

Robert G. Jones

Senior Vice President—Law, General Counsel and Secretary

Arch Coal, Inc.

One CityPlace Drive, Ste. 300

St. Louis, Missouri 63141

(Name and address of agent for service)

 

(314) 994-2700

(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

 

Large accelerated filer o	Accelerated filer x	Non-accelerated filer o	Smaller reporting company o
		(Do not check if a smaller reporting company)

 

 

 

EXPLANATORY NOTE

DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

 

These Post-Effective Amendments (these “Post-Effective Amendments”), filed by Arch Coal, Inc. (the “Registrant”), deregister certain shares of the Registrant’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”), and remaining unissued and other obligations and interests, originally registered under the following Registration Statements on Form S-8 (each, a “Registration Statement”, and collectively, the “Registration Statements”) filed by the Registrant with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”):

 

·                  Registration Statement on Form S-8 (No. 333-190861), pertaining to the registration of 3,000,000 shares of Common Stock, and an indeterminate amount of plan interests, to be offered and sold pursuant to the Arch Coal, Inc. and Subsidiaries Employee Thrift Plan (the “Thrift Plan”), which was filed with the Commission on August 28, 2013.

 

·                  Registration Statement on Form S-8 (No. 333-156593), pertaining to the registration of 1,000,000 shares of Common Stock, and an indeterminate amount of plan interests, to be offered and sold pursuant to the Thrift Plan, which was filed with the Commission on January 6, 2009.

 

·                  Registration Statement on Form S-8 (No. 333-32777), pertaining to the registration of 500,000 shares of Common Stock, and additional shares of Common Stock as may be issuable pursuant to antidilution provisions, to be offered and sold pursuant to the Thrift Plan, which was filed with the Commission on August 4, 1997.

 

The Thrift Plan no longer offers Common Stock as an investment option. Accordingly, the Registrant hereby terminates the effectiveness of the Registration Statements and, pursuant to the undertakings contained in the Registration Statements to remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities that had been registered for issuance but remain unsold at the termination of the offering, the Registrant hereby removes from registration any remaining shares of Common Stock and all plan interests that were registered for issuance pursuant to the Registration Statements and that remain unsold as of the date hereof. The Registration Statements are hereby amended, as appropriate, to reflect the deregistration of such Common Stock and plan interests.

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused these Post-Effective Amendments to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the County of St. Louis, State of Missouri, on March 9, 2016.

 

	ARCH COAL, INC.
	By:	/s/ Robert G. Jones
		Robert G. Jones
		Senior Vice President — Law, General Counsel and Secretary

 

 

Note: No other person is required to sign these Post-Effective Amendments in reliance upon Rule 478 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

 

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