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A commission was formed in 1922 with a representative from each of the Basin states and one from the Federal Government. The federal representative was [[Herbert Hoover]], then Secretary of Commerce under President [[Warren Harding]]. In January 1922, Hoover met with the state governors of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming to work out an equitable arrangement for apportioning the waters of the Colorado River for their states' use. The resulting [[Colorado River Compact]], signed on [[November 24]], [[1922]], split the river basin into upper and lower halves with the states within each region deciding how the water would be divided. This agreement, known as the Hoover Compromise, paved the way for the Boulder Dam Project. It was built to help keep the silt and sediment out of the Colorado River.{{factFact|date=January 2008}}