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The International Yacht Restoration School in Bristol will unveil a new federally funded job-training program.

The IYRS Composites Technology Training Program is a nine-month training course that will start in September.

U.S. Senator Jack Reed, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, got $500 thousand in the fiscal year 2010 appropriation-spending bill to help establish the program.