ALBANY, NY — The New York Gaming Facility Location Board is expected to make a decision about which four proposed casino projects in the state will get licenses to operate. The board has received 16 applications, with one license allocated to the Catskills/Hudson Valley Region, one to the Capital Region, and one to the Eastern Southern Tier Region. The fourth license may go to any of the three regions, although the prevailing view has been that it will go to the Catskills/Hudson Valley Region; it is possible, however, that only three licenses could be awarded.

A letter from the board chairman, Kevin Law, to the New York State Gaming Commission, which will award the licenses after receiving recommendations from the board, said the applications cumulatively totaled more than 75,000 pages, which are being reviewed.

Law wrote that the board expects to make a decision at their next meeting, which is tentatively scheduled for December 17.

After that, the commission will perform a review of its own before awarding the licenses. Therefore, the final choices may not be known for several months.