Radon Reporting Requirements

Reporting Forms

  1. What data is required?
    • Radon Testers
      • Part 16 of the New York State Sanitary Code requires the following:
        • Zip Code (required) or County (alternate requirement)
        • Number of measurements (required)
      • Data the radon program would like to collect for programmatic purposes:
        • Town or City
        • Measurement activity (pCi/L)
        • Measurement location (i.e. basement or 1st floor)
        • Date(s) of measurement
  2. Radon Mitigators
    • Part 16 of the New York State Sanitary Code requires the following:
      • Zip Code (required) or County (alternate requirement)
      • Number of measurements (required)
    • Data the radon program would like to collect for programmatic purposes:
      • Town or City
      • Initial radon activity (pCi/L)
      • Type of building or house (i.e., residential (ranch, 2-story colonial, etc.) or commercial (school, apartment building, etc.)
      • Type of mitigation system installed (i.e., active subslab depressurized (ASD), radon resistant new construction (RRNC), crawl space depressurization (CSD), depressurization/air to air heat exchanger, block wall depressurization (BWD), submembrane depressurization (SMD).
      • Date of the mitigation
      • Post mitigation radon activity (pCi/L)
  3. How do you report your data?
    • U.S. Postal Mail send to:

      New York State Department of Health
      Bureau of Environmental Radiation Protection
      Environmental Radiation/Radon Section
      Flanigan Square, Room 530
      547 River Street
      Troy, New York 12180-2216

    • E-MAIL send to: radon@health.state.ny.us

      Preferred formats:

      • text file (comma delimited)
      • Excel '97 or an earlier release
      • Access '97 or an earlier release
      • Call for assistance at 1-800-458-1158 ext. 27556, or 518-402-7556 for other formats
  4. Forms to report data
    • Mitigation Firms
    • Radon testing firms

      If an external laboratory reports your radon in air analysis to the Department of Health, only report the name of the laboratory.

    • Laboratory firms

      Report all data electronically in the following format:

      Zip Code (required)
      Town or City
      County (alternate requirement)
      Number of measurements (required)
      Measurement activity (pCi/L)
      Measurement location (i.e. basement or 1st floor)
      Radon-testing firm name (if applicable)
      Data of measurement