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Update:
I have located the following on the USB SRD: /SSR/DOCS/ReadMe.htm
In there the following statement appears
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You cannot boot a UEFI-based computer using a custom Symantec System Recovery Disk (SRD) on a USB device. To boot a UEFI-based computer, you must use your SRD DVD or a custom SRD on a CD/DVD.
I am not at all sure how I missed this online but I see that it is here also:
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH200293 (Updated 2013-02-26).
My primary reference source to date has been the 2013-08-28 version of the User Guide which, despite containing a new Chapter titled "About recovering a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)-based computer", contains absolutely no reference whatsoever to this critical and entirely unexpected restriction that is apparently a known issue since at least 2013-02-26 and possibly earlier:
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=DOC6256
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