EXHIBIT 24(b)

                                 SOLUTIA INC.

                                  CERTIFICATE

         I, Rosemary L. Klein, Senior Vice President, Secretary and General
Counsel of Solutia Inc. (the "Company"), hereby certify that the following is
a full, true and correct copy of a resolution adopted by the Board of
Directors of the Company on February 28, 2007, at which meeting a quorum was
present and acting throughout:

              FURTHER RESOLVED, that each officer and director who may be
              required to sign and execute the 2006 Annual Report on Form 10-K
              or any document in connection therewith (whether for and on
              behalf of the Company, or as an officer or director of the
              Company, or otherwise), be and hereby is authorized to execute a
              power of attorney appointing Rosemary L. Klein and Miriam R.
              Singer, or either of them acting alone, his or her true and
              lawful attorney or attorneys to sign in his or her name, place
              and stead in any such capacity such Annual Report on Form 10-K
              and any and all amendments thereto and documents in connection
              therewith, and to file the same with the Commission or any other
              governmental body, each of said attorneys to have power to act
              with or without the others, and to have full power and authority
              to do and perform, in the name and on behalf of each of said
              officers and directors, every act whatsoever which such
              attorneys, or any one of them, may deem necessary, appropriate
              or desirable to be done in connection therewith as fully and to
              all intents and purposes as such officers or directors might or
              could do in person.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand in my official
capacity and affixed the corporate seal of the Company this 2nd day of March,
2006.

                                     /s/ Rosemary L. Klein
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                                     Rosemary L. Klein
                                     Senior Vice President, General
                                     Counsel and Secretary

SEAL