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Aquatic Anti-fouling Paint Applicator: Someone who is certified in the commercial application of
general-use aquatic anti-foulant paints. Anti-fouling applicators are issued an identification number that starts with the letter "B" followed by 7
- digits. See the
NYSDEC web sitewebsite for more information.
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Business Registration Number: Business registration numbers are issued by the NYSDEC to
registered businesses. The identification number is 5
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Certified Applicator: A pesticide applicator licensed by the state of New York. This includes commercial applicators, technicians, anti-fouling paint applicators, and private applicators. Note that private applicators are not required to submit PRL Reports.
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Commercial Permit Number: Commercial sales permit numbers are issued by the NYSDEC to
commercial permittees; they consist of an “R” followed by 5
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e.g. R00001).
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Commercial Pesticide Applicator: Someone who is fully certified to make applications in the state of New York. Commercial applicators are issued an identification number that starts with the letter "C" followed by 7
- digits. See the
NYSDEC web sitewebsite for more information.
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Control Center (also known as Control Center): The main window of the Option A, B, and C software. Your contact and identification information is entered here. You can open a reporting form to enter pesticide data7, upload your report, change the report year, edit your list of products7, change the Report Root, and access the program documentation.
Commercial Pesticide Apprentice: Uncertified pesticide applicator working under the direct supervision of a
commercial pesticide applicator. Apprentices do not have an identification number issued by the DEC. See the
NYSDEC web sitewebsite for more information.
Commercial Pesticide Technician: Someone who is certified to make some types of applications in the state of New York. Technicians are issued an identification number that starts with the letter "T" followed by 7
- digits. See the
NYSDEC web sitewebsite for more information.
Commercial Sales Permittee: Anyone who sells
restricted-use pesticides must hold a commercial sales permit issued by the NYSDEC. Sales permittees are issued a
commercial permit number. See the
NYSDEC web sitewebsite for more information.
Compliant Report: A
PRL report file has a "compliant” format if it is either:
- A text file formatted according to the Text File Specifications. This includes Option A files, and third-party software files, or manually-created files that has have been validated with our software .
- A Microsoft Excel
.xls file created from one of the Excel workbooks provided by the Service Bureau. This includes Option Options B, D, and Option D files and our "Excel-compatible" spreadsheetsO files.
In addition, the file name should follow the naming conventions shown for text files or Excel files, as applicable. The critical parts of the file name are the prefix and extension.
In both cases, we know how the data is laid out in the file, so we are able to automatically extract the data for storage in a database. Files that are “not compliant” require manual processing to convert them into a compliant formatwill no longer be accepted starting with the 2023 reporting year.
A PRL Report Submission is “compliant” if all of the files in the submission are compliant.
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Confirmation of Receipt Email: The
email message sent by the
Pesticide Reporting Service Bureau which indicates that your report submission has been received. It contains a list of the files we received, your
submission number, and a preliminary assessment of whether your report meets
our specifications. For reports submitted via the
web and the
PRL reporting software, the email is sent immediately.
For emailed reports the receipt email will generally be sent by the next business day during the peak reporting season (roughly mid-December through early February); at other times of the year, it will be sent within a few days. Receipt emails are not usually sent for mailed or FTPed reports.Please Please retain this email as proof that your report was received.
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Form 25 (also known as
Form 44-15-25): Form 25 is used by
commercial permittees to report a summary of all sales of
restricted-use pesticides sold from their establishment to New York purchasers throughout the year. The same form is used for sales to resellers (other
commercial permittees) or for sales for end use by
commercial applicators,
technicians, and
anti-fouling paint applicators. Each container size of each product sold should be reported on a
separate line of the form.
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Form 26 (also known as
Form 44-15-26)
: Form 26 is used to report all pesticide applications made by
commercial applicators,
technicians,
anti-fouling paint applicators and
apprentices during the reporting year. Each pesticide application should be reported on a
separate line of the form. Fully certified applicators
that who supervise apprentices must report applications made by those apprentices.
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Form 27 (also known as
Form 44-15-27)
: Form 27 is used by
commercial permittees to report all sales of
restricted-use pesticides or
general-use agricultural pesticides to
certified private applicators in New York State. Each pesticide sale should be reported on a
separate line of the form.
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Identity File: The
identity.txt contains the identity and contact information that you enter into our
reporting software and some third-party software products. You can also
create it yourself. Our software stores the file in the
report folder.
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Private Pesticide Applicator: Someone who makes private applications of
restricted-use pesticides for purposes of producing an agricultural commodity in the State of New York. Private applicators are issued an identification number that starts with the letter "P" followed by 7
- digits. Private applicators are
NOT required to file a
PRL report. See the
NYSDEC web sitewebsite for more information.
Pesticide Reporting Law: The PRL requires the annual submission of reports detailing pesticide activities for the prior calendar year.
Commercial applicators,
technicians,
anti-fouling paint applicators and
commercial sales permittees (including importers, manufacturers and compounders) are required to submit the annual reports by February 1 of each year,. See the
NYSDEC web sitewebsite for more information.
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Pesticide Reporting Service Bureau: The group at Cornell University that has been contracted by the
NYSDEC to process the annual
PRL reports, provide telephone and email support to the businesses and applicators, create and maintain the
PRL web sites websites, and create and maintain the various pesticide reporting options. Questions not directly related to your
PRL report such as questions about your certification or business registration should be directed to the
NYSDEC. We can be
contacted by phone or email.
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Control Center | Control Center | Control Center (also known as Control Center): The main window of the Option A, B and C software. Your contact and identification information is entered here. You can open a reporting form to enter pesticide data7, upload your report, change the report year, edit your list of products7, change the Report Root and access the program documentation..website for more information.
Report Acceptance Email: The
email message sent by the
Pesticide Reporting Service Bureau after your report has been accepted. Typically this email is sent out within about one week of submission. The message contains a list of the applicators from your report who have been credited with reporting for the year. For pesticide sales businesses it will contain the
sales permit numbers credited with reporting. If you do not receive this email, please
contact us. You will not be credited with reporting for the year until your report has been accepted.
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For example, if you create reports for the 2014 report year and have not changed the Report Root location, the default report folder location is : C:\PRL2014.
Report Root Folder: The Report Root folder is a location on your computer where all of your NYS PRL files should be saved. It contains a
report folder for each report year, The default setting for the Report Root is your C:\ drive. The Report Root folder can be changed during installation or by using the
Change Report Root menu item on the
Tools menu of the
Control Center. For example if you set the Report Root folder to
C:\PRL, and you create reports for 2011 and 2012, the
C:\PRL folder will contain two sub-folders:
PRL2011 and
PRL2012.
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Special Local Need Registration: Pesticide product registrations issued by the DEC, per FIFRA (Federal Insecticide, Fungicide
, and Rodenticide Act), for the following purposes:
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To allow for the limited registration and use of a product for which the full federally labeled use would result in unacceptable impacts to on human health or the environment.
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Submission Number (also known as
Processing Number)
: A
56-digit number issued by the
Pesticide Reporting Service Bureau, which identifies a particular report submission. This number is on the page displayed when you finish uploading your report via our
web site website or using our
Option A, B or C, C, or D (installed version) software. It is also included in
the email the all email messages regarding your submission sent by the Pesticide Reporting Service Bureau sends when you submit a report via the web, our reporting software or email.
