KJZZ’s Alex Hager is reporting that the Bureau of Reclamation, the top federal agency for Colorado River matters, is poised to get a new leader in the coming weeks, according to multiple people familiar with the situation. Federal officials are soon expected to announce the nomination of Aubrey Bettencourt to lead Reclamation. She has held multiple government positions related to agriculture and water, and would join Reclamation at a tense time for the agency, which is involved in negotiations about new rules for sharing the shrinking Colorado River. Bettencourt would join Reclamation — a division of the Interior Department — after nearly two decades of jobs with ties to Western water and farming. Bettencourt’s bio from the U.S. Department of Agriculture describes her as a “third-generation farmer” at Bettencourt Farms in central California’s San Joaquin Valley.