ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - The Coast Guard says a Russian tanker carrying much-needed fuel of the Alaskan city of Nome has moored just off shore and is set to start the key phases of delivering the diesel fuel and gasoline. Coast Guard spokesman Kip Wadlow says the 370-foot tanker Renda moored slightly less than a half-mile from the city's harbor Saturday evening. The U.S Coast Guard Cutter Healy that cleared a path through hundreds of miles of Bering Sea ice for the tanker is moored nearby. Wadlow says that now crews are making preparations to ensure the safe delivery of the 1.3-million gallons of fuel through a hose laid on top of the ice to the harbor. He says he doesn't know how long that will take, but they will have to wait 12 hours to ensure that all the disturbed ice has refrozen. At that point, Wadlow says teams will have to build some sort of road or pathway over the ice for the hoses to rest on. Crews of a Russian tanker readied on Saturday a segmented hose to transfer from ashore critical fuel to an iced-in Alaskan town. Sitnasuak Native Corp. board chairman Jason Evans said the 370-foot tanker Renda was aiming Saturday to moor at about 500 yards from the village of Nome, whose harbor had too much ice for the vessel to reach. Instead, the crew will move 1.3 million gallons of fuel through a hose set up over sea ice. "It's kind of like a football game, we're on the five yard line and we just want to work into the goal line," Evans, whose hometown is Nome, said. The Renda finally reached Nome's vicinity after a slow crawl through hundreds of miles of sea ice. It was aided by the Seattle-based U.S Coast Guard Cutter Healy.