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At the beginning of the report year determine the type of report appropriate to your business and decide how to collect the data required for that report type.  At the end of the report year create a pesticide report from the data collected using a format that matches the appropriate form type(s) for the business that you are in. 

Next choose one of the submission methods to use and assemble the report files for your business into a single submission.  Then enter or verify the contact information to be submitted with the report and submit your pesticide report.

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Data Entry Guidelines

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Please refer to our data entry guidelines for information on how to enter your data.

Report Submission

After you are finished entering your pesticide data, you need to prepare the report for submission.  Please follow these guidelines

• 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 using a single submission method.  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 unless we request a replacement report from you.
• 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 on the various options for sending us your report.  Please note that while we monitor all the reporting channels (PRL software upload, web site upload, email, CD/DVD and paper) and will get the report through any of them, you will get a confirmation of receipt email from us more quickly if you use one of the upload methods.

You can submit your  report whenever you have finished making applications (or selling pesticides) for the year.  We do not process early submissions as they arrive; typically they are processed in December.

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If you are having trouble using one of the submission methods, try another method or contact us. Do not continue to click the Upload or Submit button if it does not seem to be working.

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