H.__Accept the cooperation of the Federal Government or its agencies in the construction, maintenance, reconstruction, operation and financing of the readjustment of the base and take necessary actions to utilize that aid and cooperation;

I.__Borrow money and apply for and accept advances, loans, grants, contributions and other forms of financial assistance from the Federal Government, the State, a municipality or other public body or from other sources, public or private, for the purposes of this article, give any security that is required and enter into and carry out contracts in connection with that financial assistance;

J.__Borrow money, make, issue and sell at public or private sale negotiable notes, bonds and other evidences of indebtedness or obligation of the authority for the purposes under this article and secure the payment of that obligation or any part of that obligation by pledge of all or any part of the operating revenues of the authority;

K.__Enter into loan or security agreements with one or more lending institutions, including, but not limited to, banks, insurance companies and institutions that administer pension funds, or trustees for those institutions for the issuance of bonds and exercise with respect to those loan or security agreements all of the powers delineated in this article for the issuance of bonds;

L.__Provide from operating revenues for the maintenance, construction or reconstruction of facilities to ensure the public safety for which the authority has not otherwise provided;

M.__Use operating revenues to provide payment of obligations, if any, due to the United States to implement the readjustment or reuse of the base facility;

N.__Adopt rules pursuant to the Maine Administrative Procedure Act; and

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

2.__Membership; appointment.__The authority is governed by a board of trustees composed of 11 voting members appointed by the Governor and subject to review by the joint standing committee of