1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Modernizing Clean Air Permitting Act of 2024 . 2. Treatment of natural background levels and activity (a) Treatment of natural background levels Section 107(d) of the Clean Air Act ( 42 U.S.C. 7407(d) ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (8) Treatment of naturally occurring events, wildfires, and resilience actions In determining whether an area meets national primary or secondary ambient air quality standards for a pollutant under this subsection, the Administrator shall not take into consideration any emissions of the pollutant that result from— (A) prescribed fires or wildfires on public or private land, regardless of the cause of those fires; (B) actions determined by the Governor to increase resilience to natural disasters; (C) natural disasters