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Overview

The reporting process has four three phases:

• Planning and Report Creation
• Report Submission
• Report Processing

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 It is recommended that you collect the PRL data on an ongoing basis rather than waiting until the end of the report year create a pesticide report from the data collected during the year in a format that matches the appropriate form type for the business that you are in. 

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

Report processing for all electronic reports is done at the PRL Pesticide Reporting 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

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 and install one of our software options.  For more information see Which Software Option Should I Use?

Data Entry Guidelines

• 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.
• Consult the Data Dictionary for 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

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See Submitting Your Electronic Report for information on the various options for sending us your report.

What to Expect When You Submit Your Report

Depending on what submission method you use, the following will happen when you send us your report:

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Report Processing

Your report must be validated by the PRL Service Bureau before it is accepted.  After we process the report we will either send you a request for a corrected report or a report acceptance email.

If your report is accepted, review the list of applicators (or the name of the pesticide sales business) to make sure that all the applicators or businesses have been included.  If your report was rejected, we will send you an email describing the issues with the report.  Please make these corrections and email the corrected report to us at prlsupport@nysprl.com.  Be sure to include your submission number.