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Are you one of the 12 missing lotto winners?

The Cuomo administration is launching an unprecedented effort to get the holders of winning lottery tickets to step forward and pocket their prizes before they expire, The Post has learned.

TV number readers Yolanda Vega and Gretchen Dizer will publicize the push Thursday by visiting an upstate liquor store that sold a $1 million Powerball ticket that is set to lapse next month.

“A lucky individual’s holiday season could be vastly improved, and they don’t know it yet,” New York Lottery Director Gardner Gurney told The Post.

“Yolanda and Gretchen are taking a boots-on-the-ground approach to find these missing millionaires, going directly to the scene of the sale in hopes of locating the currently unknown individual.”

A dozen jackpots of $1 million or more have gone unclaimed in the state this year, with all the tickets sold in or around New York City.

The hunt comes as gamblers are gearing up for Tuesday’s Mega Millions drawing, which has an estimated jackpot of $550 million, one of the largest ever.

Gov. Cuomo told The Post Sunday that the Lottery Division “is actively looking for these winners so they can collect on the prizes that are rightfully theirs.”

Under lottery rules, winners have one year to collect their winnings, or else the money goes back into prize pool.

The oldest outstanding ticket is set to expire on Jan. 5, 2014.

That ticket was bought Jan. 4 at Star Wines and Liquors in upstate Monroe, where owner Alan Glass said he frequently gets stopped by people asking whether the winner had claimed the bonanza.

“We’re a small town, so it’s a huge thing around here,” he said.

“Of course, every employee here has gone through every drawer in their house, gone through every piece of junk they have, thinking maybe they bought the ticket.”

Glass said he put a sign in his store window after the numbers were announced but took it down after about three months.

A while later, he said, “we started getting curious and called the New York Lottery and asked if anybody had cashed the ticket, and they said no.”

This month, a lottery rep contacted the store “when it was really getting down the wire” and said officials wanted to publicize the situation, Glass recalled

An official search of lottery records turned up the other unclaimed prizes, including $130.3 million from the Nov. 16 Powerball drawing.

That was sold at Rocco’s Bakery & Deli in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, where workers and customers are still buzzing about it.

“My fear is that someone may have lost the winning ticket,” night worker Waleed Ahmad said.

At the C&C Discount store in The Bronx, which sold a $1 million Powerball ticket that expires Feb. 3, owner Carlos Caceres, 43, feared the winner may never learn of his or her good fortune.

“I hope this person finds out that he won,” he said.

The state Gaming Commission says lottery games and video-lottery casinos last year generated a record $8.9 billion in revenue, of which $3 billion was used to fund education programs statewide.

Additional reporting by Reuven Fenton and Bruce Golding