; (2) identify economic mega-regions, defined as hub cities, related towns and suburbs, manufacturing production corridors, and rural areas woven together into the communities where people of the United States live, work, and provide goods or services for movement within the region, and to other regions; (3) identify infrastructure needs and priorities for mega-regions, with input from the American Society of Civil Engineers, and other trade, business, and industrial associations; (4) develop regional economic accelerator plans, and a pipeline of infrastructure projects, and their strategic placement, needed to improve supply chains, land use, and productivity within each mega-region, while seeking to include all communities; (5) define how such projects will create energy savings, environment improvements, jobs and wage improvements, regional economic growth, and growth in regional tax income; (6) identify where multijurisdictional agreements should be enacted or strengthened to improve the development of infrastructure projects that cross jurisdictional lines (examples are transportation improvements along the northeast corridor, flood mitigation, water management to relieve drought conditions in Southwestern States, or development of a national high-speed rail grid); (7) identify where Federal, State, or local laws and regulations should be streamlined to reduce infrastructure project costs and approval times, while maintaining environmental and safety objectives, and work towards streamlining those laws and regulations; (8) seek public input on the broad outlines of each regional infrastructure development plan; (9) provide such plans to the Bank, to inform the Bank on its selection of infrastructure projects for financing