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- 9 - Great River Energy and are included in the larger Midwest ISO grid. Elk River does not own, operate, or control an integrated transmission network and its facilities consist of limited, discrete pieces of equipment having a transmission-level voltage, such as breakers and transformers. See, e.g., Black Hills Power, 135 FERC 1[61,058, PP 32, 49 (granting a waiver to the City of Roseville where Roseville"does not own, operate, or control an integrated transmission network and [] its facilities consist of limited, discrete pieces of equipment having a transmission-level voltage (i.e., breakers and transformers)"). Elk River's participation in the MISO grid does not impact its qualification for waiver, as Elk River's facilities do not,themselves, form an integrated transmission grid. See Wabash Valley Power Ass'n, 123 FERC¶ 61,193, P 10 (2008) (granting waiver where utility"owns only limited and discrete transmission facilities that, while part of the Midwest ISO operated transmission grid, do not themselves form an integrated transmission grid"). See also Black Hills Power, 135 FERC¶ 61,058, P 10 (granting waiver to Muscatine Power& Water despite integration with MISO grid). A waiver is also warranted because Elk River's facilities are not of themselves interstate in nature. This contrasts with Cross-Sound Cable, which was denied a waiver under the limited and discrete standard, and whose facilities physically connect the markets of multiple states. Id. P 43 ("Cross-Sound Cable, an intertie that connects the New England and New York markets, cannot qualify as a limited and discrete facility that does not form an integrated transmission grid"). Elk River's facilities are located in a handful of substations sited in eastern Minnesota in the Elk River vicinity. In addition, again, any requests for transmission over Elk River facilities would be directed to MISO, not to Elk River. Although Elk River's facilities are regularly used by GRE, whose