New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says more than two dozen upstate counties are eligible for federal aid to cover costs from a late-winter storm that dumped more than 3 feet of snow on parts of the region.
Republican President Donald Trump on Wednesday approved the federal disaster declaration for 28 upstate counties impacted by the mid-March blizzard.
Cuomo says state and local governments had more than $31 million in snow removal costs and infrastructure damage from a storm that dumped 18 to 41 inches in an area stretching from the Adirondacks to the Mid-Hudson Valley and from the Albany area to the western Mohawk Valley.
A major disaster declaration enables counties to seek assistance from the federal government to recover storm costs.
The storm was blamed for at least three deaths.
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