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The reporting process has three four phases:

• Planning
• Report Creation
• Report Submission
• Report Processing

During report creation the businesses and applicators At the beginning of the report year determine the type of report appropriate to their your business , and decide how to collect the data required for that report type and .  At the end of the report year create a pesticide report from the data collected during the year in a format that meets the requirements set by the PRL Service Bureau.  Decisions about the report type and how to collect the data should be made prior to the start of the report year, so that the data will be available to include in the final report at the end of the year.matches the appropriate form type for the business that you are in. 

Next choose one of the submission method to use and During report submission the business or applicator chooses which submission method to use.  They assemble the report files for the your business into a single submission.  They Then enter or verify the contact information to be submitted with the report and they submit their your pesticide report.

Report processing for all electronic reports is done at the PRL Service Bureau.  The service bureau will send you an email when your report has been received and another one if your report passes validation.  We will also send you an email if your report requires correction.  The applicators and/or sales business(es) included on your report will not be credited with filing until your report has passed validation.

Planning and Report Creation

The data required to be filed on your PRL report must conform to the layouts of the four forms that have been developed for the PRL program.  Pesticide applicators and businesses will use form 26 and 26A, while pesticide sales businesses will use one or all of these forms: 25, 26A and 27.  For more information see Decide Which Forms to Use. 

There is no required way to collect or enter the PRL data into software.  Some pesticide management software packages have the capability to export a formatted PRL report.  If you use one of these packages, be sure to export the report in either text or Excel (or other spreadsheet) format, not as PDF.  If your software cannot export a PRL report, but can export to a spreadsheet, you can then paste the data into one of our software options.

If you do not use pesticide management software that stores the PRL data, download one of our software options.  For more information see Which Software Option Should I Use?