BUFFALO, N.Y -- After days of promises late invoices would be paid, Buffalo RiverBend lead contractor LPCiminelli received more than $82 million from the state on Wednesday afternoon.

Ciminelli's Senior Vice President Kevin Schuler said some of the members of the plumbers union who were laid off Friday, will be at back work on Thursday.

"We immediately reached out to the entire subcontracting community and told them funds will be available by the close of business today. So that will bring everybody current. I expect by the end of the week or Monday at the latest, we'll be back up to the full workforce, between 900 and 1,000 on the site."" said Kevin Schuler, senior vice president of LPCiminelli.

Questions still remain about how the state got behind on its bills for November and December.

The Governor's office has deferred to Empire State Development Corporation, which handles the Buffalo Billion initiative and SUNY Polytechnic Institute, which will manage the RiverBend advanced manufacturing hub.

"I'm not privy to the process that went on behind-the-scenes to make good on the invoice, but we have no reason to expect that we'll run into this again," said Schuler.

The state appears to have found a new funding source for the project in the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York. A spokesperson for DASNY says the authority transferred the owed monday to SUNY Polytech's management corporation, Wednesday morning.

"I think what's most important to all of us who are excited to be part of that project is that it won't have any real impact on the deliverable date, that the sub-contracting committee and the unionized workforce who are doing a great job are all whole now and we can continue getting back to doing what we all do which is building that factory," said Schuler.

Schuler said in the end he doesn't believe this hurdle will have lasting effect on one of the biggest projects in the history of Western New York.

"When this project is open and SolarCity is turning out panels and this economy is humming, this will be nothing more than just one more glitch along the way that happens on construction projects and this will be long forgotten about," said Schuler.

LPCiminelli is currently working on putting together the paperwork for the January invoices which are not due yet. Schuler said he has no reason to believe the state will have any problem paying them.