Most professionals say that's virtually impossible with mountaintop removal mining.
If it can't be done, firms must get a variance, which requires specific plans for productive use of the flattened land. It's a social compact, really, that Congress made with coalfield communities. Congress agreed to allow this extremely destructive form of mining in exchange for assurances from the mining companies that there would be something left for the communities afterward. But when state regulators accept absurd standards for approximate original contour, they allow mining companies to abdicate their part of the deal. The firms and the regulators pretend that AOC is being achieved, which means that the companies needn't draft detailed plans for postmining land use.