EXHIBIT 24(b)

                                SOLUTIA INC.

                                 CERTIFICATE

         I, Rosemary L. Klein, Assistant Secretary of Solutia Inc. (the
"Company"), hereby certify that the following is a full, true and correct
copy of a resolution adopted by Unanimous Written Consent of the Board of
Directors of the Company, effective as of March 10, 2004:

            FURTHER RESOLVED, that each officer and director who may be
            required to sign and execute the 2003 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 Jeffry N. Quinn and Rosemary L.
            Klein, 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 10th day of
March, 2004.

                                                      /s/ Rosemary L. Klein
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                                                      Rosemary L. Klein
                                                      Assistant Secretary

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