ILLINOIS POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD
    February
    3,
    1977
    ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY,
    Complainant,
    v,
    )
    PCB 76-70
    VILLAGE OF CRAINVILLE,
    Respondent.
    ORDER OF THE BOARD
    (by Mr. Dumelle):
    On January
    31,
    1977 Respondent Village of Crainville filed the
    instant Motion for Leave to File Third Party Complaint.
    The Village
    asserts
    a claim of indemnification against Argonaut Insurance Company
    as a Third Party Respondent.
    The Board has no jurisdiction over
    such a claim.
    The instant motion requests the Board to adjudicate
    a matter whose subject is contract
    law; not pollution law.
    The
    instant motion seeks adjudication of a claim of one party against
    another.
    The Board has no jurisdiction to do so.
    The Third Party
    Complaint states that the Village has already instituted a civil
    suit in Williamson County regarding the claim presented.
    That
    is where this claim belongs.
    If the Village feels that the Insurance Company is necessary
    for a complete determination of the controversy presented in the
    Complaint in this matter it may request pursuant to Procedural Rule
    303(c)
    that the Board make Argonaut Insurance Company a party.
    However, under the facts presented,
    the Board finds the Village’s
    remedy to lie within the jurisdiction of the Circuit Courts.
    The Motion for Leave to File Third Party Complaint
    is hereby
    denied.
    IT
    IS SO ORDERED.
    I, Christan L. Moffett, Clerk of the Illinois Pollutior~Control
    Board, hereby certify the above Or~erwas adopted on the
    ~3J~
    day
    of February,
    1977 by a vote of __________________________
    (4~.J.
    A
    Christan
    L. Moffett~,~erk
    24—681
    1
    Illinois Pollution ~ø~trol
    Board

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