diff --git a/lib/fog/aws/requests/auto_scaling/delete_policy.rb b/lib/fog/aws/requests/auto_scaling/delete_policy.rb
index bc8e385fc..5ff2a2e1e 100644
--- a/lib/fog/aws/requests/auto_scaling/delete_policy.rb
+++ b/lib/fog/aws/requests/auto_scaling/delete_policy.rb
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ module Fog
             'AutoScalingGroupName' => auto_scaling_group_name,
             'PolicyName'           => policy_name,
             :parser                => Fog::Parsers::AWS::AutoScaling::Basic.new
-          }.merge!(options))
+          })
         end
 
       end