1. If under chapter 15.1-12 two or more school districts prepare a reorganization plan, agree in that plan to pursue a construction project, and obtain the approval of the superintendent of public instruction in accordance with this chapter, the newly reorganized district is eligible to receive up to three hundred basis points of interest rate buydown on the lesser of:
a. Thirteen million five hundred thousand dollars; or
b. A percentage of the total project cost determined by:
(1) Allowing five percent for each school district that participated in the reorganization;
(2) Allowing five percent for each one hundred-square-mile [259-square-kilometer] increment that is added to the square miles [kilometers] of the geographically largest district participating in the reorganization;
(3) Allowing five percent for every ten students added to the enrollment of the district having the greatest number of enrolled students and participating in the reorganization; and
(4) Capping the allowable percentage at ninety percent of the total project cost.
2. In addition to the requirements of subsection 1, the percentage of cost subsidy determined under subdivision b of subsection 1 must equal at least twenty percent of the total project cost.
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