"The NIPP and its 17 sector-specific plans create a system for protection of critical infrastructure and key resources that includes both the public and private sectors. It establishes protection standards and objectives developed in partnership with each of the 17 sectors, and creates consultative mechanisms, including those for sharing key threat information, with the private sector which owns or operates most of the Nation's critical infrastructure". (DHS, NRF, 2008, 72; emphasis in original) The 17 Sectors are: (1) Agriculture and Food (2) Defense Industrial Base (3) Energy (4) Public Health and Healthcare (5) National Monuments and Icons (6) Banking and Finance (7) Drinking Water and Water Treatment Systems (8) Chemical (9) Commercial Facilities (10) Dams (11) Emergency Services (12) Nuclear Reactors, Materials, and Waste (13) Information Technology (14) Communications (15) Postal and Shipping (16) Transportation Systems (17) Government Facilities (DHS, NIPP Sector Overview, 2007, 2)