SEC Form 3

FORM 3

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940

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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* GROVES DANIEL R (Last) (First) (Middle) 436 SEVENTH AVENUE (Street) PITTSBURGH PA 15219 (City) (State) (Zip)	2. Date of Event Requiring Statement (Month/Day/Year) 05/09/2011	3. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol Koppers Holdings Inc. [ KOP ]
		4. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable) Director 10% Owner X Officer (give title below) Other (specify below) Vice President Human Resources	5. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)
			6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line) X Form filed by One Reporting Person Form filed by More than One Reporting Person

Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 4)	2. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned (Instr. 4)	3. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
No securities are beneficially owned.	0	D

Table II - Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 4)	2. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)		3. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 4)		4. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	5. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	6. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares

Explanation of Responses:

Remarks:

Exhibit List - Exhibit 24 - Power of Attorney

	/s/ Steven R. Lacy, Attorney-in-Fact	05/17/2011
	** Signature of Reporting Person	Date
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KOPPERS HOLDINGS INC.
Limited Power of Attorney
SECTION 16(a) FILINGS
Know all men by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and 
appoints each of 
Steven R. Lacy and Michael W. Snyder, signing singly, the undersigned's true 
and lawful 
attorney-in-fact to: 
(1)        Execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's 
capacity as an 
officer, director and/or stockholder of Koppers Holdings Inc. (the 
"Company"), 
Forms 3, 4, and 5 and amendments thereto in accordance with Section 16(a) of 
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder; 
(2)        Do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the 
undersigned which may 
be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5 or 
amendment thereto including, but not limited to, executing a Form ID and/or 
Authentication Document, and timely file such forms or documents with the 
United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and any stock 
exchange or similar authority; and 
(3)        Take any other action of any type whatsoever which, in the opinion 
of such 
attorney-in-fact, may be necessary or desirable in connection with the 
foregoing 
authority, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-
in-
fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be 
in 
such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-
fact 
may approve. 
The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and 
authority to do and 
perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or 
proper to be done in 
the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all 
intents and purposes as 
the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of 
substitution or 
revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, 
or such attorney-in-
fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by 
virtue of this Power of 
Attorney and the rights and powers herein granted.  The undersigned 
acknowledges that the 
foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of 
the undersigned, are not 
assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's 
responsibilities to comply with 
Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. 
This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the 
undersigned is no longer 
required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to the undersigned's holdings 
of and transaction in 
securities of the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a 
signed writing 
delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.  This Power of Attorney may be 
filed with the SEC 
as a confirming statement of the authority granted herein.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be 
executed as 
of this 9th day of         May        , 2011. 
                                                      Daniel R. Groves        
         
        Print Name of Reporting Person  
        or Entity 
                                              
                                              
  
                                                      /s/ Daniel R. Groves        
         
        Signature