Gov. Andrew Cuomo today announced the plans submitted by the Northern, Central and Western New York Regional Economic Development Councils, and the council from Long Island, had all been selected for funding.

State Sen. Patty Ritchie said she is proud to represent people in two of the four economic development regions of the state that were awarded $40 million each to add to their development projects and programs.

Ritchie’s 48th Senate District includes Oswego County, in the Central New York economic development region, and Jefferson and western St. Lawrence counties, in the northern region.

“These are all shovel-ready projects which will put people back to work in the new year,” Ritchie said.

“This means jobs in the district,” she said.

The council’s projects in St. Lawrence County include:

• Almost $10 million to rehabilitate 46 miles of rail line in Jefferson, Lewis and St. Lawrence counties, which will serve Newton Falls Fine Paper, Benson Mines, and Slack Chemical

• $1.6 million to rehabilitate the main line and yard tracks at the Massena Terminal Railroad to bring it up to the task of handling trains from the Alcoa West plant

• $450,000 for improvements to increase capacity on the rail line between Ogdensburg and Norwood

• $760,000 for a new hangar at Massena International Airport

• $900,000 for a joint Gouverneur Village/Town water distribution system improvements which, among other things, will help Kinney Drugs headquarters and inventory storage to maintain their presence in Gouverneur. Sen. Ritchie particularly mentioned this program in her statement.

• $347,000 for waterfront and trail improvement projects in Potsdam and Canton.

Several million dollars are devoted to housing rehabilitation projects throughout the county.

The Potsdam Arts Microenterprise Grant Program will receive $100,000 to help establish businesses and create jobs.

The towns of Fine and Clifton are receiving $135,000 for an assortment of projects such as streetscape plans for Cranberry Lake and Star Lake, and boat launch development.

There is also $1.8 million for a Syracuse-area firm associated with Clarkson University, C Speed of Liverpool, to expand existing manufacturing facilities or build new ones to accommodate new product lines. C Speed’s engineering and manufacturing processes are benefiting from an alliance with Clarkson’s advanced materials programs.

And Friends of Higley Flow State Park will receive $60,000 toward the Higley Trails Lodge, a joint project with local schools.