AK STEEL HOLDING CORPORATION STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN RESTRICTED STOCK AWARD

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AK Steel Holding Corporation (“AKS”) hereby grants the Recipient this award of shares of AKS’s common stock (the “Award”) subject to the terms and conditions of this Award and of the AK Steel Holding Corporation Stock Incentive Plan (as amended and restated as of January 16, 2003) (the “Plan”). Recipient acknowledges receipt of a copy of the Plan as in effect on the Date of Award and agrees that the Plan, as heretofore and as it may hereafter be amended, is incorporated herein by this reference.

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Subject to the provisions of Article 7 of the Plan, the restrictions on trans