Thus, to find out what procedures the APA requires an agency to use in promulgating a particular rule or standard, one must first make sure that the decision in question is a rule, and then determine what type of rule it is.

• 因此，为找出《行政程序法》要求机关在颁布特定的规则或标准时运用什么样的程序，必须首先确定拟议中的决定是一项规则，然后，再决定它是什么类别的规则。