TULSA, Okla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Alliance Resource Partners, L.P. (NASDAQ: ARLP) and Alliance Holdings GP, L.P. (NASDAQ: AHGP) (collectively, the “Alliance Partnerships”) jointly announced today an agreement pursuant to which AHGP’s incentive distribution rights (“IDRs”) in ARLP have been eliminated and its approximate one percent general partner interest in ARLP has been converted into a non-economic general partner interest, in exchange for the issuance to AHGP of 56,100,000 ARLP common units (