The Site Assessment Section (SAS) in the Environmental Health Investigations Branch (EHIB) of the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is currently assessing two Superfund Sites located within one quarter mile from each other in the City of South Gate in Los Angeles County. The City of South Gate is a community with many environmental justice concerns and a 98% Latino population. SAS received the request from the community to also include discussions on exposure to non-site related environmental health issues. In order to evaluate environmental stressors from the perspective of the community, SAS followed the Protocol for Assessing Community Excellence in Environmental Health (PACE-EH). In South Gate, CDPH implemented PACE-EH for the first time in California and in conjunction with a Superfund site investigation to help the community of South Gate identify and address their environmental health concerns. As part of the 13 tasks of the PACE-EH process, a formal or informal survey to gather community concerns is required. Per request of the community, SAS assisted in implementing a formal assessment using a rapid needs assessment tool developed by the CDC for identifying community needs called the Community Assessment for Public Health Emergency Response (CASPER). Also known as small-community-based surveys, rapid surveys, cluster surveys, or rapid needs assessments; the CASPER method can provide important information that resource intensive surveys like the US Census do not capture, in both disaster and non-disaster settings. This report presents methods and results from this rapid needs assessment conducted in South Gate. We would like to share this final report as a resource to help determine if the CASPER is an appropriate tool to identify their communitys concerns, either as part of a PACE EH process or independently of it. Activities of the South Gate Community Environmental Health Assessment Team (CEHAT) during PACE EH are further described in this post of CDC's "Your Health - Your Environment Blog": http://blogs.cdc.gov/yourhealthyourenvironment/2016/02/11/community-environmental-health-activism-in-south-gate-los-angeles-county-ca/.