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performance, management ability and the applicant's plan
for marketing products or service;

 
(5)__Whether the applicant meets or exceeds industry
average financial performance ratios commonly accepted
in determining creditworthiness in that industry;

 
(6)__Whether collateral securing the repayment
obligation, valued in place and in use, is reasonably
sufficient under the circumstances; and

 
(7)__Whether the owner will make an important equity
contribution to the project.__For purposes of the
authority's consideration of the project, the net
present value of any contractual labor cost reductions
that, as a condition of the financial assistance, will
be in effect at the time financial assistance is
provided must be treated as the equivalent of cash
equity.

 
Sec. 8. 10 MRSA §1053, sub-§6, as repealed and replaced by PL 1997, c.
781, §1, is amended to read:

 
6. Securities outstanding. The principal amount of revenue
obligation securities the authority may have outstanding at any
one time, to which subsection 5 is stated to apply in the trust
agreement or other document, may not exceed an aggregate
principal amount equal to $657,000,000 $777,000,000 as follows:

 
A. The sum of $330,000,000 consisting of not more than
$275,000,000 for loans and up to $55,000,000 for use of bond
proceeds to fund capital reserve funds for revenue
obligation securities issued pursuant to this subchapter
relating to loans for electric rate stabilization projects;

 
B. The sum of $120,000,000 consisting of not more than
$100,000,000 for loans and up to $20,000,000 for use of bond
proceeds to fund capital reserve funds for revenue
obligation securities issued pursuant to this subchapter
relating to loans for major business expansion projects;

 
C. The sum of $57,000,000 consisting of not more than
$45,000,000 for loans and up to $12,000,000 for use of bond
proceeds to fund capital reserve funds for revenue
obligation securities issued pursuant to this subchapter
relating to workers' compensation residual market mechanism
projects; and

 
D. The sum of $150,000,000 less the aggregate outstanding
balance of mortgage loans secured by capital reserve funds
pursuant to section 1032 for all other revenue obligation
securities issued pursuant to this subchapter.; and


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