The federal government is expected to provide $1.3 billion in financing.
Add to that $150 million in federal financing and the race was already at $1 billion by the end of July.
The first was a change in the financing of company operations.
So far, the project has $260 million in promised financing.
The other $25 million in financing will come from bank debt.
Both candidates are now using the $75 million in public financing.
The problem, they said, was the lack of clear authority in federal law and financing.
That would provide an additional $2.6 billion a year in new financing.
The $100,000 in financing came from the trust, he said.
He said the administrative costs would be less than 3 percent of the $50 million over the next four years in financing.