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• Do not use ditto marks or equivalent notation on any of the four form types.
• Each required column should contain a single value (one EPA number, one street address etc).
• Do not add extra columns to the files that you send us; report only columns that are on one of the four Form Types form types.

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• Consult the Data Dictionary for

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• the description of any column you have questions about.  For example, the  units of measure and county columns require specific abbreviations or codes.

Report Submission

After you are finished entering your pesticide data, you need to prepare the report for submission.  Please keep the following in mind

• Submit all your data for the entire year at one time.  Do not send us the data incrementally, such as by the month or week.
• Send all the files that are part of your report in one submission.  For example, do not send a paper form 26A to the DEC in Albany and an electronic form 26 to the PRL Service Bureau.
• Do not send multiple copies of your report using different submission methods.  We monitor all reporting channels (PRL software, web site upload, email and paper) and will get the report through any of them.
• Minimize the number of files of the same form type you submit.  Multiple files of the same type increase the chance that your report will fail validation.  That is because we use an error threshold based on the percentage of error records in the file.  A smaller file has a lower error threshold. 

See Submitting Your Electronic Report for information about how to send us the report.