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National Critical Infrastructures
The United States has had a wide-reaching Critical Infrastructure Protection Program in place since 1996. The Patriot Act of 2001 defined critical infrastructure as those "systems and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that the incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitation impact on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination of those matters."
Thirteen critical infrastructures have been identified. They are listed below, along with their responsible agencies:
- Agriculture and Food - Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services
- Water – Environmental Protection Agency
- Public Health – Department of Health and Human Services
- Emergency Services – Department of Homeland Security
- Government – Department of Homeland Security
- Defense Industrial Base – Department of Defense
- Information and Telecommunications – Department of Commerce
- Energy – Department of Energy
- Transportation and Shipping - Department of Transportation
- Banking and Finance – Department of the Treasury
- Chemical Industry and Hazardous Materials - Department of Homeland Security
- Mail – Department of Homeland Security
- National monuments and icons – Department of the Interior
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