An application for a payment adjustment shall be transacted on forms provided by the Authority. An operating loan subject to a payment adjustment shall not exceed $150,000; shall be due and payable within 14 months after the operating loan is granted; it shall be made at a fixed or variable interest rate not to exceed the lesser of 13% or the prevailing farm operating loan rate; and notice of the lender's approval of the application for such operating loan subject to a payment adjustment shall be received by the Authority prior to June 15, 1986. Priority shall be given to those applications which are received by the Authority the earliest. The Authority may approve payment adjustments in an aggregate amount not to exceed $25,000,000. Payment adjustments shall be distributed on an equitable basis throughout agricultural farm regions of the State of Illinois.
20 ILCS 3610/7