The authority will process health care facility applications for assistance in the order of their date of receipt. The date of receipt shall be the date the health care facility application together with the application fee is received by the authority at its Olympia office.

The authority reserves the right to change priorities and scheduling when the authority determines that a "first come, first served" priority scheduling is detrimental to the sale of another health care facility's bond issue or when conditions of health and safety or public benefit require a different priority.