L.__Employ assistants; agents and servants; engineering, traffic, architectural and construction experts and inspectors; and attorneys and other employees that it considers necessary or desirable for its purposes;

M.__Exercise any of its powers in the public domain of the United States, unless the exercise of those powers is not permitted by the laws of the United States;

N.__Borrow money; make, issue and sell at public or private sale negotiable notes, bonds and other evidences of indebtedness or obligations of the authority for the purposes set forth in this chapter; and secure the payment of those obligations or any part of those obligations by pledge of all or any part of the operating revenues of the East-West Highway;

O.__Enter into loan or security agreements with one or more lending institutions, including, but not limited to, banks, insurance companies and pension funds, or trustees for those lending institutions for purposes__for which bonds may be issued and exercise with respect to such loan or security agreements all of the powers delineated in this chapter for the issuances of bonds;

P.__Use toll revenues to provide payment of obligations, if any, that may be due to the United States in order to continue the use of the East-West Highway as a toll-type facility;

Q.__Before the issuance of any bonds, issue interim certificates in such a manner and with such conditions as the authority may determine to be exchanged for bonds when they are issued;

R.__Utilize the Department of Transportation, Office of Legal Services or the Department of the Attorney General for general counsel, bond counsel, labor defense, workers' compensation, legislative issues and other required legal services on a fee-for-service basis at rates determined by those agencies;

S.__Take all other lawful action necessary and incidental to these powers;