; (B) evaluating and promoting innovative financing methods; (C) connecting sources of financing to the public sponsors of such projects; (D) establishing standards to measure the life-cycle impacts of investments in such projects; and (E) providing technical assistance and information on best practices with respect to such projects from predevelopment activities through maintenance; (2) assesses regional and multimodal approaches to advancing innovative investment in covered infrastructure projects; and (3) develops strategies for— (A) transparency with respect to covered infrastructure project analysis to ensure the public interest is protected; (B) predevelopment capital programs to facilitate the creation of a catalog of covered infrastructure projects available for investment; (C) the bundling of smaller-scale and rural projects into project pools for investment; and (D) the multimodal integration of transportation projects. (e) Program termination The Program shall terminate on the date that is 10 years after the date on which the Program is established under subsection (a). (f) Covered infrastructure project defined In this section, the term covered infrastructure project means a project— (1) sponsored by a State, local, or regional public entity