On Monday, CMP announced three contract awards worth a total of $524 million.
The winning contractors are from out of state: MYR Group Inc. of Illinois; Irby Construction Co. of Mississippi; and Hawkeye LLC of New York. All, however, are expected to employ subcontractors from Maine.
John Carroll, a spokesman for CMP, estimated that 1,000 new jobs will be created during a phase of the Maine Power Reliability Project, which is scheduled to run into the middle of 2015.
A job fair will be held Jan. 18 at the Augusta Civic Center for individuals and companies interested in the project.
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