Make use of footer_before

By Default in RWD theme's page.xml files contain below code

<block type="page/html_wrapper" name="footer.before" as="footer_before" translate="label">
   <label>Page Footer</label>
   <action method="setElementClass"><value>footer-before-container</value></action>
</block>

please check if you have this code and also check If some layout has this code . if below remove code exists then also it removes footer_before section

<remove name="footer.before"/>

you cannot see this section only in above two scenario