The state transportation department is hereby authorized to:

(1) Acquire and convey to the United States parkway areas in accordance with the provisions of sections 226.280 to 226.430;

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(2) Construct or rearrange fencing along parkway land boundary, cattle passes, and water supply lines to adjoining landowners; change overhead wires; construct underground wire and pipe crossings; reconstruct public and private roads; make land and topographic surveys; provide and set permanent land boundary markers, and prepare land maps and conduct condemnation suits.

(3) Exercise within its constitutional limitations, the right of eminent domain to appropriate and condemn land or waters of sufficient width to conform to the requirements of sections 226.280 to 226.430, and to convey same to the United States for parkway, easement, or recreational purposes (title to the land vesting in the state upon institution of such proceedings); and to acquire fee simple areas, scenic and other easements and areas requested for revetments, quarries, gravel, dredging and borrow pits found necessary for parkway construction;

(4) Authorize representatives of the state and the United States to enter upon private lands for the purpose of making surveys; and protect parkway areas by state authority after acquisition by the state and acceptance by the secretary until such time prior or subsequent to construction as the former owner shall have received full compensation therefor from the state;

(5) Provide for the relocation or abandonment of sections of local, public and private roads, or of railroads by agreements therewith, on parkway land as may be necessitated by the design and construction of the parkway when such relocation or abandonment does not interfere with flood control projects or rulings of the state public service commission;

(6) Authorize the conveyance of all or portions of state-owned areas and state-owned easements to the United States of sufficient amount to conform to the requirements of sections 226.280 to 226.430 when the parkway extends through state-owned areas or absorbs state-owned easements;

(7) Provide for assuming indebtedness or securing releases therefrom through irrigation, flood control, drainage or other political districts or subdivisions wherever outstanding indebtedness exists therein;

(8) Provide for the concurrent jurisdiction of the state and the United States over the parkway areas after title thereto becomes vested in the United States;

(9) Authorize as soon as the route of the parkway shall be determined, the immediate payment of premiums on standing timber, pending final purchase in order to discourage timber cutting by owners during the negotiation period;

(10) Authorize the elimination of existing and the denial of new frontage or access rights to the parkway road and on parkway land to land-owners whose land abuts the parkway land by one or more of the following remedies: Purchase or acquire residual tracts by excess condemnation, provision of other means of access to public highways, acquisition of private rights-of-way or by adjustment of damages;

(11) Require the elimination of stock grazing on parkway land or the unrestricted use therefor of such land by adjacent landowners;

(12) Authorize preliminary surveys and preparation of topographic plats of the flagged locations of the parkway road, for the purpose of aiding the federal engineers in determining the final location of the parkway road and parkway land boundaries;

(13) Authorize the leasing of parkway land on terms satisfactory to the secretary during the period of negotiation, from the time land is acquired by the state and before it is transferred to the United States.